Still have the land-line that was installed 43 years ago, and we’re not about to give it up.
Garbled words and sometimes a kind of hum when folks use cell phones to leave messages on the answer machine. We play the message over and over to understand, and then don’t always.
When we speak over each other using a land line, our words are not clipped, and we generally know what each has said.
Try that on a cell - constantly cut-off, and have to repeat and repeat, and no one knows who should speak first.
CONstant cutting off - time waster, patience trying.
Always think we should say “over” each time we’re ready to listen to the other person - like using a walkie-talkie.
Are there better cell phones than others -?
Your post reminded me of the old Sprint commercials (for land-line)...To illustrate how clear their signal was, they showed a pin dropping.
How far we’ve “progressed” since then.