You missed my point:
Recording must occur to create delay.
There’s transmit delay 2x as well, plus computer time to digitize and packetize those digits, but three seconds is a lot when it’s local cells not satellites.
Recording must occur to create delay.
No it doesn’t. Delay comes from all sorts of things.
That was addressed in my final sentences. Recording does not affect delay, especially since such recording is done in parallel to communications, not in-line.
If you have a 3-second delay on your cell phone calls, you have a serious communications issue...but one that has nothing at all to do with whether or not your calls are being recorded.
No. Recording would not create delay. The digital nature of modern phone communications creates delay.
Your voice gets broken down into data packets, at the rate of 8,000 7-bit packets per second. As each packet gets passed from node to node, there is a delay. If the carrier converts the voice into voice-over-IP to save capacity, there is even more delay as it gets passed node-to-node.