Well, I just finished my first hands-across-the-ocean conference call with the Hamburg team, and it was horrible -- voice-quality wise, at least. Speakerphone on their end + transatlantic link + cordless phone on my end does not for clarity and understanding make.
Phone connections between the US and Germany can be a real crapshoot; most of the time they're decent, sometimes they sound better than if you'd called someone in your own city, and sometimes they're horrifying, with rising and falling static and crosstalk from other peoples' conversations drifing in. Today was one of those days. As for the phone, perhaps Shelby's parents have an oldstyle corded phone stashed in a box somewhere; if not, I think that I'll have to go out and buy one before next Monday.
Posted by Kevin at August 2, 2004 08:16 AM