Bandwidth is not strictly limited in practice, but signal attenuation

increases heavily at the lower and upper cutoff frequencies. For speech,
channel cutoff frequencies are 300 and 3.4 Hz, as shown in Figure 3.3.
The bandwidth is normally measured from the points where the signal
power drops to half from its maximum power. Attenuation or loss of channel
is given as a logarithmic measure called a decibel (dB), and half
power points correspond to a 3-dB loss. Decibels are discussed later in this
chapter.