VoIP quality better than PSTN

VoIP Central posted results from a recent Minacom report entitled VoIP quality better than PSTN. The Minacom report contradicts an earlier report from Brix which stated that call quality was dropping (as measured by their "Test your VoIP" web site.

Minacom seems to have conducted a more thorough study whereas the Brix results were strictly based on results of tests run by users of its web site. Those results are skewed because there is no way to know if the users of the Test Your VoIP site were only those having problems. It wasn't a random sampling of call quality across geographies.

These results are certainly good news for VoIP providers (though they do note that the PC-based VoIP services (e.g. Skype, Google Talk, etc.) did exhibit worse quality than the VoIP over broadband services.