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 17th, 2010
The GSMA (GSM Association) recognized France Telecom – nice someone did, since nearly all the media covering MWC media were frothing over Yet Another App/App Store — for its implementation of mobile HD voice.
France Telecom received the “Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough” in the course of the 15th Annual Global Mobile Awards during the presentation in [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 16th, 2010
Ericsson is not taking a subtle approach to HD voice. The company, in league with Orange, is providing and promoting HD voice service across Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress event this week. It’s a move that might wake up some other network equipment manufacturers to the prospects of using HD voice as an opportunity [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 15th, 2010
France Telecom/Orange continues its steamroller push of mobile HD voice service at Mobile World Congress this week. The company says it plans to offer eight (8) mobile HD voice phones in the first half of this year and all of its handsets are expected to support HD voice by the end of 2011.
In an interview [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 11th, 2010
Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list–
Codecs
VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can tell. Looks like [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 9th, 2010
On the rollup to Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week in Barcelona, Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has announced a video chat/HD voice package for Apple iPhone mobile developers.
Coders can use GIPS VideoEngine Mobile to rapidly integrate real-time video chat or multi-point video conferencing into iPhone applications, resolving IP network issues such as delay, jitter and [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 2nd, 2010
Fraunhofer IIS, the folks that gave us MP3, is bragging about it plans to demonstrate “mobile phone calls in stereo CD quality” over a 4G cellular network at Mobile World Congress next week. Mobile World Congress will have HD voice falling out of the skies, if the rumors and releases are any indication.
Today’s press release [...]