T-Mobile has launched HD voice service in Austria. This is the second official launch for T-Mobile and the second launch of mobile HD voice service in Austria.
The release, available here, notes T-Mobile has “upgraded” its entire 3G network to HD voice and the company invests over 100 million Euros per year into [...]
XConnect (www.xconnect.net) is touting an AudioCodes HD voice transcoding solution between wireline and wireless networks for its HD Alliance customers. The Alliance is an IP-based federation with 11 service providers.
The new capability uses XConnect’s carrier-ENUM registry and IP interconnection services along with AudioCodes’ Mediant 3000 transcoding solution. XConnect says the solution has been [...]
T-Mobile Poland has officially announced HD voice support, fulfilling a hint dropped earlier in the year. This is the first T-Mobile subsidiary to launch HD voice, if memory serves.
According to the translated announcement at Telepolis.PL, T-Mobile Poland (formerly Poland ERA) has over 700,000 HD voice “enabled” phones. More interestingly, HD voice is enabled [...]
UK-based Glensound Electronics (http://www.glensound.co.uk/) has published a spec sheet describing the Broadcaster’s Mobile Phone with Glensound HD Voice. The company says the product will be available for use in August 2011.
The Glensound GS-MPI004 HD provides up to 7 kHz of audio bandwidth on a 3G network – bring your own SIM card — [...]
Thanks to Andy Abramson of Communicano for the tip/reminder
This morning (well, last night East Coast US time), Telstra announce the “largest HD Voice network in the world” – after all, Australia is a Big Country — as it rolled out mobile HD Voice services across its entire Next G cellular network.
Is there a TAC code database that maps HD voice support (AMR-WB support) to each TAC (i.e., to each mobile device)?
This should be a fairly simple piece of work and useful to have for carriers that wish to do a pre-deployment survey of handset devices to determined what handsets (customers) already are [...]
NORWALK, Conn. — (April 7, 2011) — Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and HD Voice News today announced the publication of ‘HD Voice 2011: Critical Mass,’ the first comprehensive research report covering the rapidly growing use of wideband voice.
Verizon Wireless (www.verizonwireless.com) should support HD voice across a number of LTE devices and users will ultimately be able to exchange wideband calls within and outside of Verizon’s network.
“The initial devices we’ll support [AMR-WB] are smart phones for sure,” said Verizon Wireless Marjorie Hsu, VP Technology Development. “Other devices on the road map, [...]
In the course of working on the 2011 HD Voice report, we came across “WTIMIT: The TIMIT Speech Corpus Transmitted over the 3G AMR Wideband Mobile Network.”