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Submission + - Sound of Mobile Calls Gets an Upgrade (nytimes.com)

dberninger writes: "France Telecom announced the worlds first deployment of high definition (HD) voice for cellular phones in the tiny country of Moldova.

HD which doubles the frequency response of a telephone call represents the first substantial improvement in telephone voice quality since 1937.

There exists near zero awareness of HD in the telephone space, so companies with HD based telephone products assembled an alliance HDConnect (hdconnectnow.org) to push for adoption.

"Can you hear me now"....Yes, finally!"

Communications

Submission + - High Definition to Crash the Voice Party (gigaom.com)

dberninger writes: "The GigaOM column draws attention to the strangely static nature of telephone voice quality. The core value proposition of the
telephone — conveying voice — remains largely unchanged over the last 50 years. A new generation of VoIP based devices leveraging G.722 and other wideband codecs threaten to upset the voice status quo."

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