By Doug Mohney, on March 1st, 2010
HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney has published a handful of pieces at other sites over the past month–
TechEye (www.techeye.net)
The Two Minute Guide to mobile HD voice
TMC (www.tmcnet.com)
A Half-Full Glass of HD Voice from Mobile World Congress – And Getting Fuller
Who is ‘Doing’ HD Voice? Five Companies to Think About
Conferencing: The ‘Killer App’ for [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 22nd, 2010
When it came to mobile HD voice service announcements out of Barcelona, Mobile World Congress this year was an all-France Telecom show, despite hints dropped by 3 UK that other providers would announce mobile HD voice services and an AMR-WB peering exchange.
Codec and IP communications stack developers got their share of headlines, with D2 [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 14th, 2010
France Telecom has dramatically upped the ante in the mobile HD voice arena. Orange will now launch mobile HD voice service in France, Luxembourg and Spain in 2010, adding to a list that already includes Moldova, the UK, and Belgium. In addition, Orange confirmed that the UK customer trial for mobile HD voice will start [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 3rd, 2010
Ovum is putting its two cents worth in for mobile HD voice – but it won’t be money going to mobile operators. Instead, call quality might be the business differentiator between carriers for now. The analyst report also confirms an earlier report that mobile operators will make a HD voice interoperabilty announcement at Mobile World [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 25th, 2010
Miami – CommuniGate Systems has upgraded its entire Unified Communications product suite to incorporate HD voice and G.722.
Speaking at a afternoon panel at IT EXPO, Vice President Jon Doyle indicated that a formal announcement would be coming soon. CommuniGate has also posted a note on its website indicating the company will be demoing the new [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 11th, 2010
A France Telecom spokesperson says, contrary to an earlier piece posted by HD Voice News, that there is “no set date for the launch of mobile HD in France. There is no certainty it will happen in 2010.”
By Doug Mohney, on January 10th, 2010
HD Voice Summit at 2010 CES, Las Vegas –France Telecom will deploy mobile HD voice service in its home country in 2010, as well as providing mobile HD voice service to Belgium and broadband HD voice to Poland.
Thomas Lemaire, Director of Business Development for France Telecom/Orange, provided a brief update of the company’s deployment plans. [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 1st, 2010
The release is available at—
http://newsroom.orange.co.uk/2009/12/31/orange-to-launch-mobile-hd-voice-in-2010-a-new-standard-for-the-uk-telecoms-industry/
Or just read below….
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Orange to launch mobile HD Voice in 2010 – a new standard for the UK telecoms industry
Orange first to announce mobile High Definition (HD) Voice for its customers, building on the company’s position as the leading 3G operator in the UK
Mobile HD Voice to herald a new era [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 18th, 2009
QUALCOMM made a visit to Verizon Wireless and demonstrated its HD Voice technology. Don’t read too much into this, since carriers get a lot of tech demos.
Business broadband carrier MegaPath is thinking about a HD voice product for 2010.
By Doug Mohney, on November 18th, 2009
Thanks to David Frankel at ZipDX for forwarding on this story
Forbes Magazine is the latest major publication that has caught the wave of HD Voice. “Get Ready for Hi-Def Phone Calls” says more data bandwidth/capacity and LTE for providing a foundation for better cell phone call quality. At the end of the online piece, there’s [...]