That has not been my expeerience in recent years. Voice quality (AT&T, previously Cingular) is aurally indistinguishable from a landline phone, both for me and for incoming calls from other AT&T cell phones. Nor can I detect a differnce on incoming calls from other parties which I believe to be non-AT&T customers. Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com