T-Mobile Austria launches mobile HD voice service

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 announces AudioCodes G.722/AMR-WB transcoding for its customers

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 launches mobile HD Voice in Poland

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 [...]

Glensound Electronics introduces HD voice phone for broadcasters

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 — [...]

Telstra announced mobile HD voice for Australia Next G Network

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.

Customers calling [...]

Mobile HD voice request of the day–TAC code database mapped to HD voice/AMR-WB support?

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 [...]

TMC, HD Voice News Join Forces to Publish First Comprehensive Report on the Market for Opportunity for HD Voice Technology and Services

Yes, this is the press release verbatim – Doug

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.

The use of HD voice is [...]

HD Voice News 2011 HD Voice Report–Coming Soon (No, really)

The final write-up and editing for the 2011 HD Voice News report (currently at around 65-70 pages) is in process.

With a bit of luck, it should go on sale within the next two weeks over at TMC.

Verizon Wireless chats about HD, VoLTE, and SIP

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, [...]

Rumor of the day: T-Mobile Netherlands running AMR-WB capable network… but no service

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.”

http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/285_Paper.pdf

Long story short:  University geeks run experiments on a 3G AMR-WB network

More specifically, across T-Mobile 3G HSPA+ network in The Hague, The Netherlands. 

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