Digital Phone
How It Works
Cable Digital Voice is simple. You pick up the phone, you make a call and you talk. You can use the same telephone sets that you’ve been using, and you can use cable TV, the Internet and your phone all at the same time.
The big change is behind the scenes, in the technology. Cable companies transmit phone calls over the private, high-speed networks that connect millions of homes. Your cable company uses a cable modem (the device that also connects your PC to the Internet over cable) to activate all your existing telephone wall-jacks for digital phone service.
While the technology behind Cable Digital Voice service is advanced, it works the same way you would expect a traditional phone to work. You make calls and answer your phone exactly the same way and you can use the same phones that you use with any landline phone service. For you technology buffs, Cable Digital Voice converts voice signals from your telephone into a collection of digital “packets” that are reconstituted as a voice signal at the other end. The person you are calling can be either a traditional phone user or a Digital Voice customer. Either way, he or she will hear your voice in your natural way. This state-of-the-art, next generation technology also means you get crystal clear voice quality.
Cable Digital Voice is the next generation of home telephone service that provides consumers with a choice in home phone service. It allows access to more features (like digital voice mail) and broader functionality (many cable companies now let you check voices messages from a remote PC as well as your phone). The main difference is that digital phone calls travel over a high-speed data connection instead of a copper-line wire network. But other than the way calls are carried behind the scenes, you can use Cable Digital Phone service the same way you use traditional phone service – except with more choices and lower prices.
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