AMPS scheduled to end
AMPS, or Advanced Mobile Phone Service, analog cellular, is scheduled to end in America in five years. The Federal Communications Commission in early August decided that cellular carriers would no longer be required to keep open a few analog channels for the now small number of non-digital phones. You can download the official F.C.C. document by clicking here. AMPS audio sounded great, many will miss it, but it took up too much bandwidth. Now we have digital wireless, bandwidth friendly, feature laden, but often with poor audio because of over compression. That's because the cellular carrier wants as many calls over the air as possible, all scrunched together, with voice quality now a small concern. AMPS, we will miss you.