GIPS lands HD voice in Turkey

Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has secured Argela Technologies, a subsidary of Turk Telekom, as a customer for VoiceEngine Mobile to insure “excellent” call quality on TT’s WiRO mobile soft client.

TT WiRO works like most other soft clients these days, allowing customers to avoid international roaming charges by using WiFi and a broadband connection.  Customers can [...]

HD Voice-related events in March

Webinars

“Part 1: The Year of HD”,” Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM EST

TMC (www.tmcnet.com) is hosting, Dialogic (www.dialogic.com) is sponsoring and attendees will learn about the surging use of HD voice in North American and
around the globe; Advantages of HD voice over a regular PSTN call and; How affordable HD voice is compared to simple [...]

Recent HD voice pieces published on other news sites

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney has published a handful of pieces at other sites over the past month–

TechEye (www.techeye.net)

The Two Minute Guide to mobile HD voice

TMC (www.tmcnet.com)

A Half-Full Glass of HD Voice from Mobile World Congress – And Getting Fuller

Who is ‘Doing’ HD Voice? Five Companies to Think About

Conferencing: The ‘Killer App’ for [...]

Unisys embraces HD voice for messaging solutions

Last week at Mobile World Congress, Unisys (www.unisys.com) demonstrated its messaging system built to handle AMR-WB and G.722 calls.

Billed as “Messaging in High Definition,” the Unisys Messaging and Converged User Services solution is able to both store voice messages in native HD formats and transcode between narrowband and HD formats.  At the heart of the [...]

HD voice news wrap-up from Mobile World Congress 2010

When it came to mobile HD voice service announcements out of Barcelona,  Mobile World Congress this year was an all-France Telecom show, despite hints dropped by 3 UK that other providers would announce mobile HD voice services and an AMR-WB peering exchange.

Codec and IP communications stack developers got their share of headlines, with D2 [...]

Acme Packet gives lip-service to HD voice in the LTE world

In a column at RCR Wireless News, an Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com) employee drops one of our most favorite phrases – ironic, given the major role Acme Packet’s SBC hardware is supposedly playing in SIP/HD voice peering.

Looking at “Voice over LTE: How soon is now?,” Solutions Marketing Director Kevin Mitchell notes that the LTE camp has [...]

After MWC: Placing bets on the next mobile HD voice handsets

As France Telecom/Orange announced its plans for covering Europe with mobile HD voice service and AMR-WB, a senior company official said Orange plans to offer 8 mobile HD voice phones in the first half of 2010, with “all” of its handsets supporting HD voice by the end of 2011.   Which vendors are qualified and which [...]

MWC: GMSA awards France Telecom mobile HD voice “Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough”

The GSMA (GSM Association) recognized France Telecom – nice someone did, since nearly all the media covering MWC media were frothing over Yet Another App/App Store  — for its implementation of mobile HD voice.

France Telecom received the “Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough” in the course of the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards during the presentation in [...]

MWC: Ericsson pumps HD voice in Barcelona

Ericsson is not taking a subtle approach to HD voice.  The company, in league with Orange, is providing and promoting HD voice service across Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress event this week.  It’s a move that might wake up some other network equipment manufacturers to the prospects of using HD voice as an opportunity [...]

MWC: Orange to offer 8 mobile HD voice phones in 1H 2010; all by 2011.

France Telecom/Orange continues its steamroller push of mobile HD voice service at Mobile World Congress this week. The company says it plans to offer eight (8) mobile HD voice phones in the first half of this year and all of its handsets are expected to support HD voice by the end of 2011.

In an interview [...]