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).” [...]
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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 [...] 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. LG Uplus [...] This week, KPN-subsidiary IBasis announced Reliance Communications (RCom)will be joining the iBasis IPX (IP eXchange) network. IPX services, such as IBasis’, provide full-blown SIP exchange with Quality of Service (QoS) to support services such as HD voice, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and videoconferencing. IPX is necessary for LTE roaming and provides high-quality VoIP in [...] Vodafone Ireland has launched HD voice, according to a report from Silicon Republic. The two unique points of the news are: 1) First HD voice service in Ireland and 2) A Vodafone subsidiary; Vodafone has been slow to roll out HD voice. Otherwise the news is pretty standard, with HD voice being [...] 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 [...] Sprint is playing up HD voice – both in its network and phone “capabilities” in the roll out of its latest HTC Evo. The HTC EVO 4G LTE will be available in “the second quarter” for $199.99, with pre-orders starting on May 7. The HTC EVO 4G LTE has Android 4.0 with HTC [...] Sprint is turning up the volume on its upcoming LTE rollout, dropping hints that the iPhone 5 will be an LTE device. However, the company also has a CDMA HD voice play as it upgrades its 3G network using Qualcomm chips and the 1X Advanced standard. The path to HD voice through LTE is [...] |
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