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Swisscom (www.swisscom.com) has announced it will turn up HD voice on February 1, 2012. It joins Orange Switzerland in offering mobile HD voice service in the country. In today’s press release, Swisscom says it has the best UMTS coverage in Switzerland (93 percent) so customers can make HD voice calls “almost anywhere.” Customers need to have [...] KPN has announced it has started an HD voice trial in the Netherlands, laying claim to being the first official launch of mobile HD voice service in the country. The announcement is especially significant because it includes the Nokia 800 Lumia — a Windows Phone — among the supported device. Kudos to the service provider [...] HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney writes about Qualcomm saying HD voice will appear on CDMA networks this year on different carriers around the world, with at least one carrier announcing service by the end of 2012. The full piece can be found at– http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/hd-voice/articles/258361-qualcomm-hd-voice-arriving-cdma-this-year.htm Qualcomm says EVRC-NW and 1X Advanced is being rolled into all chips moving [...] Thanks to MobileSyrup (www.mobilesyrup.com) for breaking the news, eh? Bell (Canada) and Virgin Mobile have both launched HD voice this week in the Great White North, joining WIND. Both launches are on HSPA+ networks. On Bell’s website, there’s a Q&A page buried in the support section. Currently, both callers must be within Bell 4G HSPA+ coverage; HD [...] 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, [...] Verizon Wireless is pushing back its VoLTE rollout to early 2013, Light Reading says. This would be a pushback from the company’s previous declaration it would start rolling out Voice over LTE for customers in 2012. Light Reading says Verizon has been trialing VoLTE in two markets at least since September 2011. An analyst covering the [...] Thanks to Nok VoIP for the tip. This might be “old news” to some, but a number of low-cost Nokia SIP-capable phones support HD voice over VoIP using AMR-WB as the speech codec. The S40 models, including Asha 303, C3-01 Gold, C3-01 T&T, X3-02 T&T all support AMR-WB via SIP. A list is available [...] Invoxia (www.invoxia.com) has announced the NVX 610, a VoIP phone with an iThings (iPhone/iPhone/iPad) dedicated app to enable dialing from the iThing, plus facilitate “mobile convergence.” You can receive calls to an iThing mobile as well as VoIP based calls. The big draw/brag with the NVX 610 is a total of eight 8 mics and 8 “high-quality” [...] Alan Hadden, President of the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA – www.gsacom.com) was nice enough to drop a note to HD Voice News clarifying the math and added services providers between its October 3, 2011 report and the most recent one dated November 21, 2011. Hadden writes– The previous GSA report – dated October 3, 2011 confirmed 32 [...] Hong Kong mobile carrier one2free, a subsidiary of CSL, has launched the first mobile HD voice service on the island, reports its website. The company is offering free “HD voice” enabled Nokia handsets for customers who sign up on an 87 (Hong Kong) dollar“Talk and Connect” service plan; the phone bundled in is appears to be [...] |
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