Orange announces Intel-based Santa Clara HD voice phone

Bucking the ARM trend, France Telecom/Orange has announced it will roll out an Intel Atom-based phone to customers in the UK and France.

The currently code-named “Santa Clara” will run Android and is based on Intel’s smartphone reference design.  It includes an Intel Atom Z2460 processor, plus an Intel XMM 6260 platform for [...]

France Telecom-Orange acquiring 100% of Congo Chine Telecom (CCT)

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 [...]

Apple iPhone 4S– HD voice or not? More likely "Yes”

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 [...]

Orange Uganda turns up mobile HD voice

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 [...]

France Telecom releases onslaught of HD voice news–1 million mobile HD voice users

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) [...]

Orange adds mobile HD voice service to Mauritius, Reunion; Switzerland this fall.

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 [...]

Editorial: A little late to the party, a little slow on reality, Nokia starts talking about mobile HD voice

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 [...]

France Telecom/Orange lights up Luxembourg with HD Voice

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 [...]

France Telecom asserts leadership with mobile HD voice; Dominican Republic in 2011

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 [...]

GmSA report puts number of mobile HD voice networks at 10 (but misses Austria)

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, [...]