A piece in the Korean Times calls attention to the largest LTE audiences. Verizon has the most, followed by NTT DOCOMO and SK Telecom.
SK Telecom already has VoLTE and HD voice deployed, with six handsets: Samsung Galaxy S3 & Galaxy Note 2, LG Optimus Vu & Optimus G, and the Vega Race [...]
This story updated around 11:45 PM ET on September 12 — Audience voice processing tech is notin the Apple iPhone 5. HD Voice News apologies for the erroneous information.
After months of speculation, Apple has announced the iPhone 5. The new device supports “cellular wideband audio” and “over” 20 carriers will support the [...]
Global LTE subscribers are expected to reach 73.3 million by the end of the, says a report by IHS iSuppli. The “Consumer and Communications Market Tracker Report” predicts triple digit growth in 2013, with LTE subs to total nearly 2.6 million.
By 2016, LTE subscribers are expected to reach nearly 1.2 billion, according to [...]
Ericsson (www.ericsson.com) continues building its HD voice wins, this time by providing the technology for LG U+ to deploy VoLTE (Voice over LTE).
The company’s press release doesn’t detail an exact date for VoLTE service turn up, only that LG U+ has launched. It also says the operator “can offer” services such as [...]
MetroPCS has apparently snubbed supporting AMR-WB and HD voice on its VoLTE rollout. A piece on PCMag.com says the company is using a 7 kHz codec at this time.
Various company statements from MetroPCS allude to HD voice, but the company appears to be betting on RCS – Rich Communications Services – to attract [...]
Found among T-Mobile USA’s employment lists is a “Sr Engineer, SystDesign & Strategy (VoLTE) in Bellevue Washington United States.” This should be no big surprise, since T-Mobile USA said it was going to take the spectrum and deal break fees from AT&T and roll them into network upgrades.
There’s a blog posting over on Samsung that claims it has has the world’s first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) phone, the Galaxy S II LTE device. MetroPCS says its already sold the first VoLTE phone and it’s an LG model.
Currently available in South Korea and in “global LTE markets” later this year, [...]
MetroPCS says it launched the first commercial launch of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) on August 7, along with availability of the “world’s VoLTE-capable handsets” and the first sale of a VoLTE-capable handset out of one of its Dallas/Fort Worth store locations. But who knew? The South Koreans have been talking up VoLTE for weeks [...]
SK Telecom will start offering HD voice service over its LTE network on August 8, reports The Next Web. This is a move up from a previously announced September timeframe.
As part of the launch, the operator is pre-loading Samsung Galaxy S III LTE devices with supporting soft clients – LTE is all data, [...]
Telecompaper reports KT will offer VoLTE (HD voice) over its network in October. The rollout will follow SK Telecom’s VoLTE rollout in September.
KT is currently trialing VoLTE service with around 300 students and office workers around the country. The carrier will be offering all kinds of advanced LTE technology over the next [...]