As France Telecom/Orange announced its plans for covering Europe with mobile HD voice service and AMR-WB, a senior company official said Orange plans to offer 8 mobile HD voice phones in the first half of 2010, with “all” of its handsets supporting HD voice by the end of 2011. Which vendors are qualified and which [...]
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The GSMA (GSM Association) recognized France Telecom – nice someone did, since nearly all the media covering MWC media were frothing over Yet Another App/App Store — for its implementation of mobile HD voice. France Telecom received the “Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough” in the course of the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards during the presentation in [...] While nearly all of the (so-called) trade press is drooling over Samsung intro-ing Yet Another Open Source operating system and Microsoft’s efforts to stop its phone OS from vanishing into oblivion, Business Week got it right: Voice still matters for mobile phones. Plane old voice calls (POVCs?) still provide the bulk of revenues for carriers around [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] A France Telecom spokesperson says, contrary to an earlier piece posted by HD Voice News, that there is “no set date for the launch of mobile HD in France. There is no certainty it will happen in 2010.” HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES, Las Vegas –France Telecom will deploy mobile HD voice service in its home country in 2010, as well as providing mobile HD voice service to Belgium and broadband HD voice to Poland. Thomas Lemaire, Director of Business Development for France Telecom/Orange, provided a brief update of the company’s deployment plans. [...] Thanks to all who forwarded along pointers France-Telecom Orange has announced it is bringing mobile HD voice service to the United Kingdom in 2010, making Britain the first major market (nothing personal, Moldova) to get the promise of wideband calls on mobile handsets. Two years of “considerable investment” in Orange’s UK mobile network have taken place, [...] This is a (laborously cut and paste) summary of the afternoon “tweets” posted from the HD Communications Summit on September 15; the morning will be posted later (hopefully after I figure out an easier way to process the morning Twitter-ing). Chris Fine, VP Goldman Sachs Lunch break over; Chris Fine of Goldman Sachs up to talk about [...] Thanks to Claude Gravel of VoiceAge for the heads-up. Orange Moldova has launched the first mobile HD voice service and it is being billed as Orange’s “second step” in its HD voice strategy, following its launch of HD VoIP service in 2006; over half a million HD voice handsets have already been sold in France and [...] |
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