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Orange Rolls Out HD Voice for Mobiles
Mobile firm Orange has become the first UK network to use a technology that offers higher quality voice calls.
High Definition (HD) voice claims to reduce background noise and the "hisses and crackles" often heard on a normal mobile call.
The technology, known as, Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) has been adopted as an international standard for 3G mobile networks.
Other networks are expected to follow Orange soon, experts said.
"It is relatively easy for an operator to introduce - it's just a software upgrade… in a base station," said William Webb, head of research and development at the UK regulator Ofcom.
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Posted: 2010-09-01 10:20:32
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Woah! Now, we can even talk in stunning high definition!
This can only be good, but doesn't call quality depend a lot on the phone rather than the network?
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Posted: 2010-09-01 10:38:12
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Hmm this is no doubt going to be extra ?????
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Posted: 2010-09-01 10:48:14
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Only some phones are HD Voice ready, but I guess we'll see more as more networks take this up. I'd certainly like it, as long as you didn't have to pay extra for it. For the operator to implement it it's a simple SW upgrade to the masts.
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Posted: 2010-09-01 10:53:04
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HD Voice is really quite impressive a sample of it can been seen
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Posted: 2010-09-01 11:03:23
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Impressive quality!
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Posted: 2010-09-01 11:12:35
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Posted: 2010-09-01 11:27:05
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Both
Elm and Hazel phones are HD Voice ready.
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Posted: 2010-09-01 11:30:55
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On 2010-09-01 10:48:14, fluke9 wrote:
Hmm this is no doubt going to be extra ?????
Its free actually
"HD Voice is available from today nationwide at no extra cost for all Orange customers with an HD voice enabled handset"
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Posted: 2010-09-01 13:25:24
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Yes I was told only a select few handsets to begin with like the Nokia E5 Nokia 5230 & some crappy LG model
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Posted: 2010-09-01 23:11:08
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