By Doug Mohney, on March 9th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on March 1st, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 18th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 16th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 15th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 14th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 11th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 9th, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 3rd, 2010
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 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 28th, 2010
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 [...]