Articles tagged with: Voice Over Lte

VoLTE service revenues predicted to reach $2 billion by 2016

Carriers worldwide are seeking ways to improve the efficiency and capacity of their networks while minimizing costs and improving the end-user experience, while at the same time fighting the decline of their primary revenue stream - voice services. more

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Verizon Wireless Makes World's First "Voice over LTE" Call on a Commercial LTE Network

Verizon Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone has confirmed that the company's technologists placed a live, IMS-based VoLTE (Voice over LTE) call over its commercial network on Wednesday morning. This takes VoLTE calling from a lab environment to a commercial network for the first time anywhere on the globe. more

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ZTE Showcases VoLTE Call Based on IMS with Existing Mobile Networks

ZTE says that it has demonstrated a successful IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call with Hong Kong based mobile network, CSL. The calls were based on IMS and used conventional 2G/3G handsets. ZTE also demonstrated additional services such as call forwarding and call waiting. more

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IMTC Selected to Lead Interoperability Testing of Voice over LTE Profile

The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) has been selected by the GSMA's Voice over LTE (VoLTE) initiative to develop usage profiles / specifications and then conduct interoperability testing events for the voice over LTE profile, previously known as the One Voice profile. The GSMA's VoLTE initiative was set up to drive the global mobile industry towards a standard way of delivering voice and messaging services for LTE, and will provide IMS-based solution for voice and text messaging for next generation mobile broadband networks. more

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GSMA Adopts One Voice Initiative for Voice Over LTE

The GSMA says that it has adopted the work of the One Voice Initiative to drive the mobile industry towards a standard way of delivering voice and messaging services for LTE. The GSMA's Voice over LTE (VoLTE) initiative has the backing of more than 40 organisations, all of whom support the principle of a single IMS-based voice solution. more

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Roaming for Voice over LTE

The NGMN Alliance has announced an agreed recommendation to ensure roaming for "Voice over LTE". The agreement was reached based on an outcome of the NGMN Task-Force on Voice over LTE. more

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Multiple Options but No Clear Winner for Voice and SMS over LTE

Despite the fact that data traffic is growing exponentially, mobile operators are witnessing a divergence of data revenues and traffic load curves due to flat rate price models. Thus, network efficiency must improve in order to ensure that the cost-per-bit to deliver a service is attained at a bare minimum in comparison to the existing cellular technologies. Many opine that the next generation long term evolution (LTE) technology can achieve these goals, with the technology currently being trialled by several operators worldwide. more

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Deutsche Telekom Announced First Voice Calls over LTE with VoLGA

Deutsche Telekom announced today the world's first voice call over LTE with excellent speech quality based on VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Access) technology and two independent test environments. more

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Voice Over LTE's Future Is Far From Loud and Clear

Although mobile network operators and technology suppliers are firmly committed to LTE as the cornerstone for 4G networks, major disagreements about the importance of including voice service as part of early LTE deployments could lead to the kind of industry fragmentation that adversely affected 3G rollouts, according to the latest report from Unstrung Insider. more

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VoLGA Forum Releases Complete Voice over LTE Specifications

The Voice over LTE via Generic Access (VoLGA) Forum has published the first complete set of approved specifications for delivering mobile voice and SMS messaging services over LTE access networks. more

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