HD Voice News will be at The Cable Show 2012

HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney will be at The Cable Show 2012 in Boston, on May 21-22.

He expects to be generally available for briefings from around mid-day on Monday, May 21 through the afternoon of May 22.  Given his compressed schedule during the event, he is agreeable to meeting later in the [...]

LG Uplus to launch VoLTE service for South Korea in October

LG Uplus (U+) will be delivering Voice over LTE (VoLTE) in October 2012, making South Korea the first country to get national VoLTE coverage. 

First reported in The Korea Herald, LG Uplus has completed its nationwide LTE network and “is considering” providing VoLTE on all LTE-based devices starting in 2013.

LG Uplus [...]

TI offers “Highly integrated” codec on audio, wideband voice processing chip

Texas Instruments (TI)  has introduced  the TLV320AIC3262, calling it “the industry’s most highly integrated audio codec with embedded miniDSP cores,” providing echo and noise cancellation at wideband voice sampling rates up to 16 kHz.

The new chip integrates five amplifiers and two miniDSP cores. Designers have the ability to interface to up to [...]

Editorial—If you want to support HD Voice News….

A lot of people appreciate HD Voice News.

If you are one of them, I hope you will consider buying this year’s 2012 report available over at TMCNet. It’s available at http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/ip-communications/HD-Voice-Second-Annual-report1.aspx. 

We’ve priced it this year at $120 for a single user copy.  I’m hoping a lot of companies that balk [...]

2012 HD Voice News report now available

The HD Voice News second annual report is now out and available on TMC. 

“HD Voice 2012: Proliferation” is now available at TMCnet.com for the affordable price of $120.  The report is based on three years of accumulated research and dialogue with service providers, network equipment vendors and OEM suppliers.  It documents a [...]

Add Multichannel News to the call for HD voice (in the U.S.)

Earlier this week, Multichannel News also chimed in on HD voice.  A blog on the MSO-focused publication calls for “Someone Please Bring HD Voice to The U.S,” joining CIO and Forbes over the past five days.

Leslie Ellis compares HD voice to HDTV and says “Trust me: You Want this. It’s that good.” She [...]

iBasis, Reliance Communications (RCom) establish IPX

This week, KPN-subsidiary IBasis announced Reliance Communications (RCom)will be joining the iBasis IPX (IP eXchange) network.

IPX services, such as IBasis’, provide full-blown SIP exchange with Quality of Service (QoS) to support services such as HD voice, Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and videoconferencing.   IPX is necessary for LTE roaming and provides high-quality VoIP in [...]

Editorial—The Dutch love HD voice

If you are following #HDvoice on Twitter (you are, right?), the people of the Netherlands are loving their new HD voice service.  Right now the Dutch are out-tweeting everyone else on the planet – and given all the French deployments of HD voice, that’s saying something.

Of course, this could also be a language [...]

Media uptick on HD voice continues

Stories on Forbes and CIO illustrate how HD voice is (finally) starting to make inroades with U.S. media outlets.

A Forbes blog posting suggests the HD voice feature of VoLTE will bring back carrier customers from over-the-top (OTT) services by providing higher quality. It also cites Metaswitch’s view of the world that carriers need [...]

Vonage Mobile HD voice soft client hits 1M downloads

Since launching in February 2012, the Vonage Mobile soft client has racked up over a million downloads.  The app enables users to make free iSAC HD voice calls and texts via Wi-Fi.

In a press release this week, Vonage also boasted over half a million of its customers signed up for its Vonage [...]