International voice traffic spikes 20% during COVID-19
Roaming traffic might be down substantially, but industry association i3Forum is reporting a surge in the number and duration of international calls.
Roaming traffic might be down substantially, but industry association i3Forum is reporting a surge in the number and duration of international calls.
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The concept of machines wirelessly talking to each other is no longer just a metaphor as the first instances of voice being carried over an IoT technology are announced.
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The merger of IP comms players Sonus and Genband has been announced, with the aim of creating a network transformation leader.
Years after many of its competitors had already done so, O2 UK has finally switched on VoLTE (naming it 4G calling) and wifi calling.
Qualcomm has seemingly cashed in on feature phone nostalgia with the launch of its 205 Mobile Platform, designed to bring 4G LTE connectivity and 4G services to entry-level feature phones.
UK Telecoms cloud software company Metaswitch has acquired mobile virtualiztion company and fellow brit OpenCloud to offer a pure-play software VoLTE solution.
VoLTE is proving transformational beyond simple migration of voice services, while virtualization is fundamental to providing the scale, flexibility, and economics needed to compete.
Although the biggest benefit of this VoLTE growth for operators will be the freeing up of spectrum for increasing 4G, 5G and internet-of-things services, it’s imperative in 2017 that operators continue to maintain primary focus on ensuring that the quality of their voice service remains immaculate.
VoLTE is perceived as the next step in the evolution of the third generation partnership project (3GPP). However, when looking to deploy VoLTE networks, there are important fraud considerations that mobile operators must address to ensure they are adequately equipped to deal with the associated risks.
German operator group Deutsche Telekom has rolled out wifi calling across its domestic network with the stated aim of plugging not-spots.
Telefónica and ZTE have set to work on constructing a unified fixed-mobile convergent IMS VoLTE network to support domestic and mobile HD calling.
Newly-acquired UK MNO EE has announced the start of a major coverage initiative with the aim of providing 4G to 95% of the UK landmass by 2020.
The UK’s first 4G network was launched 3 years ago, almost to the day, by EE. Its launch was met with a muted response from consumers and businesses, who didn’t think the cost of upgrading to 4G would be worth it.
T-Mobile has launched an expanded HD voice solution called the Enhanced Voice Service, while it claims to be connecting 300 million VoLTE calls every day.
Chinese kit vendor ZTE says it has signed an extensive agreement with China Unicom to develop working SDN and NFV practices, while trialling a new VoLTE solution.
Kit vendor Ericsson has completed the upgrade of Vodafone Netherlands’s core network, using a commercial NFV deployment to enable VoLTE and wifi calling.
Like a number of global operators, Ooredoo is in the process of transforming its network architecture to a next-generation infrastructure.
Latin American incumbent operator Telefónica has claimed the launch of Colombia’s first cloud-based voice over LTE service, in partnership with Ericsson.
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