OK Mates. Fiber Optics has been both a blessing and a scourge.
I'll get calls here in the US without any background hiss. And then they are speaking in British Colonial English. The really disturbing thing is that this improvement to communications is also making the Internet seem like everything is right next door. Here we have 400 MBS available to the house. While 30 years ago 9.6 KBS dial up was considered a luxury. I don't know if it is good or bad. But when things don't work exactly right it is painful.