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Old Jul 22, 2016 | 2:33 pm
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npapadon
 
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Originally Posted by televisor
I agree. Voice only is very low bandwidth (I'm pretty sure similar things have been discussed when someone was asking about listening to the radio over WiFi), and uses less data than most of what people do when browsing.

However from a noise pollution perspective I fully understand and support all bans on calling.
That's a good point. I have listened to iTunes on a flight over WIFI with very little interruption in service. That was on a full flight during a business week. I suspect vo-ip would use less bandwidth then iTunes because the voice quality is lower and there are gaps of silence in the audio.
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