C-phones vs. Internet platforms. - Chance

I think migrating from C-phones to Internet platforms was a mistake.

Over the years I have worked on both Lanier and Dictaphone C-phone accounts as well as about eight different Internet platforms.  I'll take a C-phone account any day.  C-phone accounts normally involve using a professional grade word processor like Word or Wordperfect rather than an amateurish proprietary thing that resembles a word processor but often lacks the features of a professional word processor.

Additionally, the voice quality and foot pedal responsiveness of a C-phone connection over a fiberoptic landline can't be beat.  Internet platforms are often clunky resource hogs as they are continually moving much, much more information across the Internet than the MT needs to do the job.

I suspect that one of the main reasons for the mass migration to Internet platforms was that some hospitals and clinics wanted to get away from paying for 1-800 lines into their dictation systems.  The answer to that did not necessarily mean leasing or paying somebody to develop, customize, install, operate, and maintain an Internet platform.  A better answer was simply to unload the cost of unlimited long distance onto the MT (and some did that).  I recently had an unlimited long distance plan for under $25 a month over a fiberoptic landline.  I can usually make that in an hour on a no-frills C-phone account.

What do you old timers think?