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Telstra is bragging it has introduced Australia’s first 4G smartphone. The HTC Velocity is an LTE smartphone with HD voice support onboard. The Velocity currently runs Android 2.3, has a 4.5 inch touch screen, and a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor. It also has an 8 MP camera, and boasts of built-in HD voice support for “crisper, [...] U.S. wireless carriers have started talking about the role voice will play on 4G LTE, with HD voice having the potential to be a leverage point to get consumers onto a new network. At the Open Mobile Summit conference, a panel of carrier executives and wireless industry experts hashed out revenue-generating opportunities for 4G networks, according to [...] Last week, D2 Technologies (www.d2tech.com) announced partnerships with Altair Semiconductor and Sequans Communications in the LTE world. In the first announcement, D2’s mCUE communications client has been successfully integrated onto Altair’s FourGee™ 3100/6200 LTE chipset platform. The FourGee-3100/6200 LTE chipset supports both FDD and TD-LTE on a single semiconductor and software platform in any 3GPP frequency band [...] Last week Sprint threw WiMAX under the bus, announcing it would be conducting a national rollout of LTE under its Network Vision plan. Since a number of carriers are wholesaling Sprint capacity, there could be a lot of mobile HD voice in the next three years between Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and Sprint MVNOs. Sprint will begin [...] HD Voice News hates to re-hash other people’s blogs, but will make an exception this week for Mobile World Congress. From Barcelona and assuming we’re reading the piece correctly, Quentyn Kennemer of Phandroid is reporting that all LTE phones will have support for AMR-WB and wideband calling over LTE; i.e. VoLTE will be wideband from the get-go. [...] A report from Network World from Barcelona suggests that Verizon Wireless is not only showing off Voice over LTE (VoLTE), but HD voice over LTE. The GSMA Association is conducting a demonstration with Verizon using LG’s Revolution smart phone and Alcatel-Lucent network gear at Mobile World Congress. IDG News Service Reporter Mikael Ricknas says the voice [...] D2 Technologies (www.d2tech.com) and Beceem (www.beceem.com) have announced a 4G reference design for Android mobile devices that deliver multi-radio VoIP call handover to existing 4G-3G multimode and WiFi solutions. Beceem’s BCSM250 WiMAX modem provides the 4G wireless capabilities, including 4G-3G multimode and session handover, as well as WiMAX-WiFi “coexistence.” Add D2’s mCUE IP communications stack for VoIP/SIP [...] In a column at RCR Wireless News, an Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com) employee drops one of our most favorite phrases – ironic, given the major role Acme Packet’s SBC hardware is supposedly playing in SIP/HD voice peering. Looking at “Voice over LTE: How soon is now?,” Solutions Marketing Director Kevin Mitchell notes that the LTE camp has finally [...] |
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