By Doug Mohney, on October 21st, 2011
In a two way deal, France Telecom-Orange (FTO) is buying 100 percent of Congo Chine Telecom (CCT), a mobile operator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
FTO is paying $10 million for ZTE’s 51 percent share of CCT’s equity and $7 million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the government 49 percent share [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 7th, 2011
While there was no official discussion or mention of HD voice/wideband voice at the Apple iPhone 4S rollout earlier this week, it is possible/likely (Apologies for the hedging) that the device will support AMR-WB for voice calls in/on select vendors and markets.
T-Mobile and Orange have already announced the UK pricing for the iPhone 4S. If [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 11th, 2011
On July 7, Orange Uganda officially joined the mobile HD voice club, the first nation in Sub-Saharan Africa to do so.
The release from Orange had few other details, other than saying this was the second operator in Africa to turn up service.
All total, this is the 12th territory Orange has turned up, with the [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 14th, 2011
France Telecom has launched a major offensive for HD voice today, declaring it wants to “open up” the use of HD Voice communications by 2013. The company says it now has one million (1M) mobile HD voice users, and has further launches planned this year, particularly in the AMEA (Africa, Middle East, and Asia) region. And [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 31st, 2011
France Telecom continues to roll out HD voice service in its subsidiaries around the globe. The latest countries include Mauritius and Reunion, but the company isn’t hyping the additions.
Mauritius appears in a Orange Switzerland press release promoting a HD voice demonstration at the 37th Asut seminar in Bern on June 9. The country is cited as [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 26th, 2011
Nokia’s official blog, “Nokia Conversations,” has discovered the wonders of mobile HD voice. The company has recently posted a pair of articles discussing the technology, but reading though the pieces makes me wonder where the company’s head really is.
The first piece, “What is HD voice?,” comes posted from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 14th, 2010
The Elves at Ericsson (www.ericsson.com) are continuing to forward information about the latest mobile HD voice turn ups with Luxembourg being the latest territory.
Orange issued a press release on December 8 announcing the turn up of mobile HD voice service throughout the country (C’mon, it’s not a BIG country).
Affirming the laundry list of countries it [...]
By Doug Mohney, on November 23rd, 2010
France Telecom (www.france-telecom.com) is counting up its mobile HD voice deployments, along with listing all the compatible mobile HD voice handsets it has in stock and letting slip where it expects to deploy service in the near future.
As already noted by HD Voice News in several forums, Orange Mobile HD Voice is now available in [...]
By Doug Mohney, on November 17th, 2010
The Global mobile Supplier Association – GSA for short, which will cause some confusion with anyone doing business with the U.S. government – yesterday released its”HD Voice: Global Update” report. The report cites 10 commercial mobile HD Voice networks operational in 9 countries, with service commercially available in Armenia, Belgium, Egypt, France, Moldova, Russia, Spain, and [...]
By Doug Mohney, on November 9th, 2010
France Telecom/Orange (www.orange.com) has announced it is launching mobile HD voice service in Cairo on Mobinil’s network. It is the first time mobile HD voice has been launched in the Africa and Middle East region – and blows a HD Voice News prediction that Tunisia was to be the first.
Mobinil is Egypt’s leading mobile operator and [...]
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