Editorial from IT EXPO East- Aren’t IP phones done yet?

Miami, FL – There are at least three vendors touting new IP phones or software/firmware upgrades to their phones here at IT Expo. I thought we were done with handsets already?

Digium is getting a lot spin along with a good measure of WTF by rolling out its own IP phones; three to be exact, [...]

Editorial–Recovering from CES 2012

I am (once again, damn you annual severe airplane cold) recovering from CES.  There’s a backlog of at least 2-3 stories from last week, plus a bunch of significant material flowing from announcements this week.

Bits from last week include–

D2’s move into LTE
Ericsson’s embrace of G.719 and priority queuing for gaming as a cloud service to sell [...]

CES 2012 meeting schedule for HD Voice News

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be on site at CES in Las Vegas from Sunday, January 8 through Wednesday afternoon, January 11.  

Sunday, January 8

CES Unveiled, 4-7 PM, The Venetian Ballroom D

Monday, January 9

Various press conferences at the Venetian, 8 AM through approximately 4 PM. Some time available during the day.

Sony LVCC press conference, [...]

Editorial-All time high for HD Voice News website statistics

Last month, HD Voice News logged in a total of 3,452 unique visits and over 4,900 page views for the month, plus over the double the average returning visits.

Hopefully, this is part of a larger trend as HD voice contributes to proliferate across [...]

Editorial–Why CES 2012 should count big time for HD voice

This year’s CES (more formally, the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012) should be a Big Deal for HD voice in the mobile and cable space.

Mobile and AMR-WB should get solid play, between the proliferation of HD voice among carriers in Europe and the forthcoming arrival of VoLTE in North America for Verizon Wireless.  AT&T and Sprint [...]

Call for briefings–2012 HD Voice Report

HD Voice News is now taking briefings from companies for inclusion into its 2012 report.  Briefings can be conducted either in an open fashion or under embargo.

If you represent a company in the HD voice ecosystem – hardware, software, services – you  are strongly encouraged to contact HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney at dmohney@hdvoicenews.com [...]

Editorial- Is HD Voice cool with a younger generation in Europe ?

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen the Twitter #HDvoice tag pop up in unexpected ways.  The first time I saw it roll out because it was associated with some rapper that I hadn’t heard of – not surprising, since I’m more of a Stevie Nicks/80 on 8 guy – and it annoyed me because it [...]

Sponsorship deals available around CES 2012, next report

HD Voice News is entertaining offers for sponsorship deals around CES 2012 and the 2012 edition of the HD Voice report scheduled to come out in the first quarter of 2012.

Interested parties should contact Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney [...]

Editorial–The uphill battle on HD voice interconnection

One of the two panels I moderated in Austin, TX last week was on migrating interconnections between TDM and IP to IMS (peering), but the real eye opener was talking to some of the hosted VoIP service providers on the show floor.  Most of them didn’t know who Neutral Tandem or XConnect were and one… well… [...]

Editorial–Updating the HD voice report

HD Voice News’ first industry report was released in April.  When should the next one come out?

Currently available exclusively through TMC’s website, "HD Voice 2011: Critical Mass,” key findings include:

DECT and CAT-iq 2.0 will play a key role in enabling residential HD voice service.
Tier 1 providers are starting to address the need for ubiquitous [...]