Recent HD voice pieces published on other news sites

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 [...]

HD voice news wrap-up from Mobile World Congress 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 [...]

France Telecom / Orange to blanket Europe with mobile HD voice

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 [...]

Ovum: HD voice won’t bring more money for mobile operators

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 [...]

IT EXPO East 2010 – CommniGate going HD voice across the board

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 [...]

France Telecom – “No set date” for mobile HD voice in France

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.”

CES 2010 – France Telecom to deliver mobile HD to France in 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.  [...]

FYI – Orange’s original/source press release for mobile HD voice in the UK

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 [...]

HD voice rumors this week

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.

Forbes magazine chimes in on HD

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 [...]