ZTE talks HD voice with CDMA2000 testing

From EE Times Asia, ZTE says it has finished CDMA2000 1x IOT testing in partnership with Qualcomm.  A CDMA2000 1x Advanced network will “quadruple voice capacity” while ensuring “excellent HD voice quality,” according to the release.

The announcement would suggest that HD voice might be making its way to CDMA networks at some point.    Testing of [...]

Ericsson demos HD voice on CDMA–but will it sell?

Today, Ericsson (www.ericsson.com) announced a successful demonstration of a an HD voice call CDMA using the EVRC-NW (Enhanced Variable Rate Codec-Narrowband-Wideband) codec in a lab environment using Ericsson CDMA gear, claiming a technical first for the CDMA industry. It’s an interesting release since Qualcomm been demoing HD voice for year and the Ericsson release cites cooperation [...]

India get hot Droid phone, second mobile HD voice carrier

When Aircel rolls out its 3G service across 13 cities in India, it will also carry one of the hottest phones on the planet.  OliveTelecom will provide the OliveSmart V-S300, complete with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, with HD voice supported.

The V-S300 is described as the “first” Indian HSPA+ smart phone and has [...]

Acme Packet lines up HD voice transcoding with AMR-WB, G.722 and EVRC-B

Acme Packet (www.acmepacket.com), the dominant name in the session border control (SBC) space has rolled out heavy-duty support for HD voice, including codec management functions and transcoding functions for its Net-Net family.  One big surprise is support for EVRC-B, a narrowband voice codec for the CDMA world.

The new set of capabilities, called HD Voice – Xtended [...]

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 [...]

HD Comm '09 – Tweets of ATSC Chairman, HD Innovation Panels presentations

The tweets presented below were sent during the HD Communications Summit, September 15, 2009.  Some formatting and selective spelling correction done for readability.

Robert Graves, Chairman, ATSC Forum

Graves – from Bell Labs/AT&T, got involved with video, went to ATSC
Graves – Spent lot of time evangelizing about ATSC/digital TV/HDTV
Graves – ATSC now a whole family of standards, including [...]

Afternoon Tweets from the HD Communications Summit/HD Comm '09, September 15, 2009, New World Stages, New York, New York

This is a (laborously cut and paste) summary of the afternoon “tweets” posted from the HD Communications Summit on September 15; the morning will be posted later (hopefully after I figure out an easier way to process the morning Twitter-ing).

Chris Fine, VP Goldman Sachs

Lunch break over; Chris Fine of Goldman Sachs up to talk about HD [...]