Orange gears up mobile HD Voice roll out in Europe

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The roll out of HD voice services in Europe along with France, Spain and Luxembourg has been ramp up by ¬France Telecom’s Orange to its 2010 roadmap. The trial will start from spring and run for three months. Orange became the world’s first operator to commercially launch a mobile HD voice service in Moldova in September, 2009.

Orange was also the first operator to launch HD over VOIP, first in France and shortly to be rolled out to Poland and Spain. According to Olaf Swantee, senior executive vice president for Orange’s global mobile business, with mobile HD voice, the firm is delivering true customer innovation, one that will genuinely enrich and transform the customers’ lives.

HD voice-compatible mobile handsets will also be extended by Orange across Europe. AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband) speech codec is used by HD Voice providing excellent audio quality due to a wider speech bandwidth of 50-7000 Hz compared to the current narrowband speech codec of 300-3400 Hz.