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Orange To Introduce UKs First HD Mobile Voice Service

Tue, 05 Jan 2010

Orange has announced plans to launch a High Definition Voice service on its mobile network in a bid to offer customers improved call quality.

Orange claims that the new HD Voice service – the first of its kind in the UK - will offer "crystal clear, superior sound quality" on HD Voice-enabled handsets and could represent a new era for mobile communications.

HD Voice uses the Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate speech codec, which according to Orange provides enhanced audio quality due to a wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000Hz compared to the current narrowband speech codec of 300–3400Hz, without using up any extra network resources.

Tom Alexander, chief executive of Orange UK, said: "Orange is proud to be leading the industry into the next decade by announcing a new standard in voice innovation that will transform the mobile experience for customers in the UK."

"HD Voice really does inject a level of innovation into mobile phone calls, making it sound as if callers are actually in the same room. Once people have tried it, they won't want to go back."

Orange said the HD Voice service will be trialled in the coming months, with a full nationwide launch scheduled for later in the year.

It added that it was working closely with "leading mobile phone manufacturers" to develop HD Voice enabled phones .
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