AT&T launching Voice over LTE service next week

For all the advancements smartphones have made with high-speed data, audio fidelity, and advanced noise-cancellation, voice calls have been seriously stuck in the past. While our phones blast cellular data out at multiple megabits per second, voice has been constrained by its reliance on older standards – your $700 smartphone handles voice traffic in much the same way as a free-on-contract dumbphone. Progress has been slow to revamp voice, but the promise of voice over LTE – or VoLTE for short – has been looking like one of the most ...

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AT&T Will Bring HD Voice Over LTE Later This Year

With T-Mobile’s announcement of their iPhone 5 and support for HD voice over LTE, it was only a matter of time before other carriers began doing the same. AT&T Senior VP Kris Rinne just confirmed that the carrier will also bring this same service later this year. HD Voice is sadly not something that works on every LTE device. Only certain devices like the iPhone 5 support it, and then obviously the network has to take the lap to offer it as well. According to Rinne, this is part of AT&T’s Voice-Over-LTE Strategy. AT&T has definitely done a lot of great work in ...

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