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 [...]

WYDE Voice beefs up international sales

WYDE Voice is a sponsor of HD Voice News

On the eve of Mobile World Congress, HD voice conferencing solution provider WYDE Voice announced that it has expanded its international sales presence.  The company has added new offices in North America, Asia and Europe and announced new division leaders.

Needless to say, with the boom in mobile [...]

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 [...]

Aastra plugs Hi-Q G.722 codec on YouTube

While it’s not going to win any awards, Aastra (www.aastra.com) has put together a little video demonstrating the difference between G.711 and G.722 on its phones.

Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5G4pbsR3OI, the 53 second long video shows a guy with a too-clean desk picking up a G.711 phone handset, speaking into it – with the audio directly [...]

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 [...]

Goodbye, goodbye – Rich Buchanan departs Ooma

After two years as Ooma’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Rich “The Dude” Buchanan is departing the company for another project.

Buchanan, an advocate of HD voice via Ooma, announced his departure from Ooma via Twitter (@richbuchanan) on Sunday evening; the company has yet to make a formal statement of either Buchanan’s departure or his replacement.  “It’s [...]

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 [...]

Fraunhofer to demo mobile "stereo CD" quality 4G calls at Mobile World Congress

Fraunhofer IIS, the folks that gave us MP3, is bragging about it plans to demonstrate “mobile phone calls in stereo CD quality” over a 4G cellular network at Mobile World Congress next week.  Mobile World Congress will have HD voice falling out of the skies, if the rumors and releases are any indication.

Today’s press release [...]

LG-Nortel voice platform to support HD voice in 2010 Q2 arrival

LG-Nortel’s iPECS-MG voice platform announced at IT EXPO East 2010 will support G.722 when it arrives in the U.S. during Q2 of 2010.

A spokesperson for LG-Nortel said that the IP side of the platform doesn’t currently support G.722, but it will be “effective” upon the official release of the product in the U.S. The spokesperson [...]

The five biggest problems HD Voice faces in 2010

Note: Ooma is a sponsor of HD Voice News

HD voice is by no means a “slam dunk” in 2010.  There are five significant problems the HD voice ecosystem of players need to address before victory can be declared and wideband calling is as at least as ubiquitous as VoIP calling.

However, four out of five problems [...]