Eurobites: MegaFon extends VoLTE services across Russia
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Inmarsat accelerates the L-band; Finnfund boosts connectivity in Africa; it’s time we took a ‘woliday’.
Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Inmarsat accelerates the L-band; Finnfund boosts connectivity in Africa; it’s time we took a ‘woliday’.
Any client win will do when you’re trying to build positive momentum leading into the annual telecoms jamboree.
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.
Google’s Project Fi MVNO has sneakily began to roll out Voice over LTE service for a currently undefined number of customers recently.
UK Telecoms cloud software company Metaswitch has acquired mobile virtualiztion company and fellow brit OpenCloud to offer a pure-play software VoLTE solution.
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.
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.
Latin American incumbent operator Telefónica has claimed the launch of Colombia’s first cloud-based voice over LTE service, in partnership with Ericsson.
TIM, the new name for Telecom Italia, has announced its launch of voice over LTE and LTE-A services across the county.
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has confirmed that the number of commercial VoLTE deployments worldwide has reached 40.
Vodacom’s executive head of innovation, Jannie Van Zyl, today explained to AfricaCom attendees how the operator rolled out its LTE network, and how it’s primarily focussed on boosting customer satisfaction and experience.
Mauritius-based mobile telco Smile Telecoms has installed the first Voice over LTE system in Nigeria, with services running over a 4G LTE broadband network.
Nokia Networks is to provide China Mobile with its TD-LTE-Advanced technology and 2G, 3G and 4G core networks, including Voice over LTE (VoLTE), a deal worth €930 million (or 1 billion dollars).
Running voice services over a virtualized 4G network works and ZTE, HP and China Unicom claim to have the evidence.
Vodafone UK has called on local councils in London to stop obstructing it and give it access to at least 1,000 more sites in the city after mobile usage grew 76 per cent last year.
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