Vodafone Ireland launches HD voice

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 [...]

Horne International, Evolve form Hornet hosted HD voice

Fairfax, VA-based Horne International has created Hornet LLC with Evolve IP to deliver hosted HD voice, unified communications, and managed network services to government “and other large multi-line businesses and organizations.”

Hornet (www.hornetcommunications.com) will be providing a “one stop, turn-key HD VoIP offering” with Polycom phones. Government customers will be able to purchase [...]

Editorial—Covering HD voice since 2009 (Thank you Forbes & Jeff Pulver).

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 [...]

Sprint HD voice service coming from EVRC-NW–not LTE

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 boasts HD voice in 2012, HTC 4G LTE as “First HD Voice-capable” smartphone in U.S.

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 [...]

Enterprise Connect 2012: Level 3 to support SIP interconnection; SMS needs to be just another data type on IP PBX

A Level 3 spokesperson said the company was working towards enabling SIP peering across all of its customers, and expected to roll it out later this year.

The conversation came up during a wider discussion of Level 3’s enterprise services and customer’s desire for videoconferencing and other SIP-based services to “just work.”

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Telstra International is “looking into” HD voice functionality for IPX service

Korean-based SK Telecom and Hong Kong-CSL have announced a LTE roaming agreement using Telxtra’s IPX interconnect service.   But there’s more to come, says a Telstra official.

“Leveraging QOS enabled networks allows Telstra International to control the quality of the voice call from the origin to the destination across markets in Asia, Europe and US,” [...]

Sprint has two paths to HD voice–1X Advanced and LTE

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 [...]

Enterprise Connect 2012 – Comcast officially rolls out Business VoiceEdge cloud-based HD voice service

Does the cable industry do anything fast?  Comcast officially launched/announced Business VoiceEdge this week, a cloud-based (i.e., hosted) voice and unified communications solution. It’s a service they were demonstrating in plain sight back at The Cable Show 2011.  The service includes HD voice, a “common user experience,” and a full suite of UC features, [...]

Comcast enables SMS text messaging – CAT-iq and HD voice to follow soon?

Comcast has been busy this week with new voice services. The company has enabled unlimited free text messaging on its customers’ home phone numbers.   Currently supported via web portal, iThings app, and Android app, the new service may hint at the forthcoming arrival of CAT-iq 2.0 devices and HD voice. Or not.

When [...]