You can still understand a noisy analogue transmission. With digital you get it or you don't.

jaggederest 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The counterpoint to that is that for the same SNR where you're at barely (or not at all) audible or garbled on analog, you have absolutely clear digital audio.

	▲	avidiax 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, and with most comms being stereotyped, most messages carry little data, meaning you can easily add redundancy and still take up the same or less airtime. You will still need plaintext messages for complex situations, but even that can be transmitted more clearly and efficiently with digital encoding.
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teravor 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

with digital you can utilize the bandwidth much better thanks to compression.

you can also load up on error correction to such an extent that what would have been completely garbled analog audio would instead result in crystal clear digital.

and this ignores the potential for a secondary ultra low bandwidth transcription text stream that would play back with TTS if all else fails.

the real reason this hasn't happened is backward compatibility hell and regulation up the wazoo. there isn't going to be much money to be made in pioneering this, a tiny startup that may wish to serve this tiny market would take one look at the regulation and nope out.