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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

France Telecom / Orange to blanket Europe with mobile HD voice

France Telecom has dramatically upped the ante in the mobile HD voice arena.  Orange will now launch mobile HD voice service in France, Luxembourg and Spain in 2010, adding to a list that already includes Moldova, the UK, and Belgium.   In addition,  Orange confirmed that the UK customer trial for mobile HD voice will start [...]

HD voice companies to look for at Mobile World Congress

Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list–

Codecs

VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can tell.  Looks like [...]

GIPS releases iPhone video chat/HD voice package

On the rollup to Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week in Barcelona, Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has announced a video chat/HD voice package for Apple iPhone mobile developers.

Coders can use GIPS VideoEngine Mobile to rapidly integrate real-time video chat or multi-point video conferencing into iPhone applications, resolving IP network issues such as delay, jitter and [...]

Ovum: HD voice won’t bring more money for mobile operators

Ovum is putting its two cents worth in for mobile HD voice – but it won’t be money going to mobile operators.  Instead, call quality might be the business differentiator between carriers for now. The analyst report also confirms an earlier report that mobile operators will make a HD voice interoperabilty announcement at Mobile World [...]

3 quietly shows HD voice demo in the UK – mobile HD voice announcement at MWC?

Credit to Dan Berninger for the pointer

The UK is close to being a hotbed for mobile HD voice, if reports are to be believed, and there may be a big mobile HD voice announcement in February.

Techeye was invited by upstart cellular carrier 3 to get a demo for mobile HD voice. Sound quality is descirbed [...]