Sprint (www.sprint.com) has sent out a flurry of announcements this morning trumpeting the arrival of the HTC EVO 4G LTE phone at its stories around the country, including Northern California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Miami, FL and the Washington D.C. area. The press releases all include a reference to “future HD Voice capabilities (1).” [...]
Voice processing technology company Audience went public this week, putting roughly 5.3 million shares on NASDAQ at a starting list price of $17 per share. The company’s stock, under the ticker symbol “ADNC,” opened at $19 a share on Thursday, May 10 and closed the first day of trading at $19.40.
At CTIA’s show this week, Leap Wireless was underlining its commitment to CDMA 1X Advanced technology. The company plans to have the HD voice-enabling tech in all of its new phones, with a bunch of 1X Advanced models coming out in the second half of 2012. But no word if it will use the [...]
In conjunction with CTIA this week, Sprint (www.sprint.com) will make the HTC EVO 4G LTE (HE4L) on May 18, with preorders started on May 7. The phone will cost $199.99 with a new line of service, upgrade and two-year service agreement (before taxes). It is now framing the phone for its “future HD voice [...]
D2 Technologies has announced its latest OEM partnership, this time with GCT Semiconductor. D2 will provide its mCUE 4G converged communications client to be combined with GCT’s GDM7240 single chip full-band FDD-LTE.
GCT’s GDM7240 supports all LTE frequency band classes and bandwidths. D2’s mCUE, highly integrated and optimized for Android OS, provides a [...]
LG Uplus (U+) will be delivering Voice over LTE (VoLTE) in October 2012, making South Korea the first country to get national VoLTE coverage.
First reported in The Korea Herald, LG Uplus has completed its nationwide LTE network and “is considering” providing VoLTE on all LTE-based devices starting in 2013.
The HD Voice News second annual report is now out and available on TMC.
“HD Voice 2012: Proliferation” is now available at TMCnet.com for the affordable price of $120. The report is based on three years of accumulated research and dialogue with service providers, network equipment vendors and OEM suppliers. It documents a [...]
There’s a lot of U.S. buzz about HD voice this week, thanks to Sprint’s mid-week announcement (Maybe that’s why they kept asking if I was going to attend the product rollout) of the HTC EVO 4G LTE. (HE4L? HE4GL?).
I didn’t believe it would be Qualcomm — yes, I confess, I heaped scorn [...]
Press reports out of the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE event say the company will first deliver HD voice over its enhanced/advanced 3G network over CDMA 1X Advanced technology using Qualcomm’s EVRC-NW’s codec – not via LTE. Ain’t that a kick in the pants?
Last year, Sprint indicated it would be upgrading its 3G [...]