Shitty cell phone connections screw us all

At this day and age I encounter phone quality issues due to network weakness, on vibes an I'm like... What is even happening! This should not be happening, at least for the voice calls as they are not too data intensive and ugh, I've been trying to talk to a friend B on the vibes calls for weeks and the best we've gotten is making sense of 40% of what she says and guessing what must have been said in the content I missed out. Sometimes I'll check on what was possibly communicated, but you can't really go 'what? Whatcha say?? 'without frustrating the other party a bit much. I nod and agree and go 'haha' like a nonce on most occasions as doing anything else can be risky or make me look like a fool. No I understand the foolishness of having a conversation where one can barely hear the other party but what are the other options really? Sending a series of audio messages is not the same, it's not the same!