Meme-Free Zone

Ever used it for an international call? Or, more pertinently, been called internationally by someone using Skype? Someone calling from Switzerland with Skype sounds like someone calling from an echo chamber in Swaziland on a normal phone. Someone calling from Swaziland on Skype sounds like someone using a normal phone from a tin hut in Antarctica in the middle of an elephant seal colony, in mating season, while Mount Erebus is erupting and the katabatic wind speeds are topping a hundred and thirty miles an hour.