My employer has been kind enough to loan me an EVDO card with service through Verizon and on the front of the box, it says, “* Not voice capable”.

Of course, yesterday on the train downtown I was able to talk to a co-worker using Skype with no problems whatsoever (other than a few strange looks from my fellow passengers) over the EVDO connection. Pings to the edge of the Verizon network were about 200-300ms, yet the voice quality and latency were still well within tolerable limits (I thought it might be a bit laggy, but it wasn’t).

Yet another example of how Voice is just another stream of packets.