Las Vegas, NV – Spirent has launched Nomad HD, a call and voice quality measurement system. The new system provides voice quality analysis for HD voice and VoLTE services “on any device, across any network,” according to the press release.
Nomad HD incorporates Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Assessment (POLQA), the next generation voice testing [...]
Orlando, Florida – Verizon CTO Tony Melone said that the company was still on track to deploy Voice over LTE (VoLTE), with a commercial in-service date of late this year or early 2014. However, Melone said while the offering would be “Network ready” by the end of the year, it wasn’t clear if marketing [...]
A senior AT&T executive has confirmed the company plans on rolling out Voice over LTE (VoLTE) later this year.
AT&T Senior Vice President of Network Technologies Kris Rinne told attendees at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit that the company would be delivering HD voice later this year, repeating what the carrier had said previously.
Ericsson and China Mobile have demonstrated the first “dual mode” HD voice call between TD-LTE and LTE-FDD, the two different types of LTE.
The demonstration included ST-Ericsson’s Thor LTE modem, Renesas Mobile quad mode chipsets, and Ericsson’s LTE TDD/FDD radio solution and IMS platform and was conducted at China Mobile’s booth at the [...]
D2 Technologies announced its IR.92 VoLTE software will be going on the NVIDIA Icera family of LTE modem chipsets for mobile devices.
D2’s software enables carrier-grade voice and SMS-over-LTE capability. The two companies also plan to collaborate on a reference design for RCS, Wi-Fi calling and IR.94 video calls that uses D2’s vPort 4G+ [...]
ZTE has conducted a Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) for Hong Kong mobile operator CSL, reports Telecom Lead.
The VoLTE call handoff was done to a 3G HD voice network with an ”eSRVCC based pre-commercial network,” according to the story,
Telefonica has become the first network operator to demonstrate the ability to transfer voice calls seamlessly and without interruption from an LTE network to a 3G network. However, the handover was conducted in a test lab environment simulation – not in the real world.
The handover was conducted in Germany at the labs of [...]
A couple of Tweets and a short web piece suggest Sweden may get HD voice service via VoLTE next year. But there’s not a lot of detail as to what carriers might be launching the service.
“Soon HD audio for mobile calls,” published in Computer Sweden, runs a brief quote from the sales [...]
Out at the CTIA MobileCON show, Verizon execs say it won’t start consumer trials of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) until late 2013, with service turn up not expected until 2014. Advantages the carrier had with first introducing the technology in the U.S. seem to have gone by the wayside when it comes to voice [...]
The Global mobile Suppliers Association’s (GSA) October 1, 2012 report says 351 operators are investing in LTE, with 105 operators having launched commercial LTE networks in 48 countries. Another 194 network deployments are in progress.
GSA forecasts 159 networks will be commercially launched in 68 countries by the end of 2012, with 195 live [...]