Thread: "HD Voice" rolling out on Orange UK
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2010-09-01 , 17:53
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
IMHO it's a bit of a marketing gimmick at this stage. I played with it some months ago with Snom equipment and it sounds great when it's supported end-to-end, but most of the rest of the world can only support 8KHz 8-bit PCM at best.
I guess they have to start somewhere and to be fair they have been pretty upfront about it only working between HD-enabled handsets. Although I'm still not sure why it won't work between an HD-enabled handset and a POTS landline - presumably this is a cellular network limitation when interfacing with POTS?