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4G in India: Everything you need to know

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Posted by Harish Jonnalagadda on 7 Jun 2017 4:00 am
4G in India
4G is finally going mainstream in India. India's mobile market has seen a meteoric rise in the last few years, and it doesn't look like the growth will abate anytime soon. A key part of that vision is 4G connectivity, which has been rolling out in phases since 2012. One of the key stories in the country's digital transformation in 2016 was the launch of Reliance Jio. Jio made its debut late...

Moto G5 Plus can't make emergency calls on Verizon's VoLTE service

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Posted by Marc Lagace on 20 Apr 2017 12:26 pm
Lenovo has offered a temporary solution, with a software update fix coming next week. If you own a Moto G5 Plus running on Verizon's network, this news is for you. In a recent post on Lenovo's support forum, the company says it has identified a software issue that affects the Moto G5 Plus' ability to connect to 911 emergency services when using Verizon's Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service....

Google testing Voice over LTE support for Project Fi

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Posted by Marc Lagace on 21 Feb 2017 3:12 pm
Project Fi is testing VoLTE support via T-Mobile's network If you're a Project Fi customer, you may have noticed improved call quality over the past few weeks. That's because Google has been quietly testing Voice over LTE (VoLTE) for a subset of Project Fi users, formally announced in a post on the Project Fi Help Forum. If you're curious to know if you're one of the fortunate testers for this...

What are VoLTE and HD Voice, and why should you use them?

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Posted by Daniel Bader on 25 Sep 2016 1:19 pm
What is VoLTE and why should I care about it? Here in the U.S., most carriers have rolled out the red carpet for Voice over LTE. If it is available in your area and through your carriers, taking advantage of the upgrade currently depends on your having the right hardware. Once you have everything you need, setting VoLTE up on your phone is very easy and well worth it. Let's take a deeper look...

How to enable VoLTE on the Galaxy S7

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Posted by Daniel Bader on 28 Apr 2016 11:00 am
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VoLTE is one of the best ways to make your phone calls sound better. Increasingly, carriers are rolling out Voice over LTE support on their devices, but the new telephony standard, which increases sound quality by using LTE instead of 3G to connect cellular calls, is still quite uncommon. If your carrier supports VoLTE, here's how to enable it on the Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge. From your...

Understanding 4G in the UK: Everything you need to know

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 25 Apr 2016 2:00 am
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Cutting through the technobabble. Everyone knows 4G comes after 3G. It's faster, better, not to mention more expensive. But "4G" can refer to a bunch of different things, and the various UK operators use 4G in different ways to offer different features to customers. It can all be a bit confusing, but we've brought together all the major details of how 4G works in the United Kingdom to help...

Telus begins VoLTE pilot in British Columbia on select Android phones

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Posted by Daniel Bader on 18 Apr 2016 12:36 pm
Telus, Canada's second-largest wireless provider, has launched Voice Over LTE, or VoLTE, as a pilot in a small area of the British Columbia Lower Mainland before rolling it out to the rest of the country. Currently available for the Samsung Galaxy S6 and LG G4, with other devices to come in the "near future," according to a support page for the service, Telus notes that there are multiple...

U.S. Cellular to begin testing VoLTE this year in select markets

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Posted by Dan Thorp-Lancaster on 6 Jan 2015 8:13 pm
U.S. Cellular to begin testing VoLTE this year in select markets
Voice over LTE (VoLTE) appears to be the hot new item that all the carriers are looking to implement, and it looks like U.S. Cellular will soon be testing the technology itself. CEO Ken Meyers recently confirmed that the carrier will begin testing VoLTE in a few markets starting this year.

VoLTE support arrives on AT&T Galaxy S4 Mini with new OTA update

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Posted by Chuong H Nguyen on 16 Dec 2014 7:51 pm
Galaxy S4 Mini
AT&T has just released a new firmware for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini that delivers support for voice over LTE (VoLTE) calling. Though the update could be downloaded over the air, you'll need to be connected to a WiFi network to do so. In addition to VoLTE support, the update also supports emergency 911 calling without requiring a SIM card to be present.

VoLTE arrives on Droid Turbo in Advanced Calling update

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Posted by Dan Thorp-Lancaster on 11 Dec 2014 4:33 pm
VoLTE arrives on Droid Turbo in Advanced Calling update
Verizon has announced today that it has begun rolling out an update for the Droid Turbo. If you had your heart set on Lollipop, it doesn't appear that it's coming with this update. Rather, it will bring Verizon's Advanced Calling 1.0, which enables VoLTE and simultaneous voice and data.

AT&T and Verizon to connect cross-carrier VoLTE calls by 2015

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Posted by Chuong H Nguyen on 3 Nov 2014 2:46 pm
AT&T and Verizon to connect cross-carrier VoLTE calls by 2015
Soon customers on AT&T and Verizon will be able to call each other with HD voice quality thanks to a partnership that will bring cross-carrier compatibility to each network's Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service. Currently, the higher quality HD voice benefits of VoLTE calls are limited to customers who are in a VoLTE network and who own a VoLTE compatible device where the calls are made to...

Droid Maxx soak test for Advanced Calling in the works

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Posted by Dan Thorp-Lancaster on 14 Oct 2014 3:11 pm
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Droid Maxx owners who have signed up for the Motorola Feedback Network have reported receiving an interesting email today. It seems that the Verizon-only handset is going to be undergoing a soak test for VoLTE in the very near future.

Verizon begins deploying VoLTE to select Android phones

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Posted by Chuong H Nguyen on 16 Sep 2014 5:44 pm
VoLTE HD Voice gets deployed on Verizon
Ahead of the iPhone 6 launch with support for VoLTE, Verizon Wireless has upgraded its network to support voice calls over its 4G LTE and XLTE network. Dubbed Advanced Calling 1.0, Verizon is now supporting HD Voice and Video Calling and the carrier is starting the roll out initially to the LG G2 and the Samsung Galaxy S5.

Verizon preparing to finally launch VoLTE in the coming weeks

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Posted by Rich Edmonds on 26 Aug 2014 8:45 am
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Verizon Wireless today announced that VoLTE (Voice over LTE) will be available on the network nationwide in the coming weeks. Customers with the US mobile operator will soon be able to make higher quality calls (and video calls) with other subscribers on the same network with compatible 4G smartphones. The plan is to slowly roll out the upgrades across the board to compete alongside AT&T...

T-Mobile Galaxy Note 3 also receiving nondescript VoLTE-related update

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 31 Jul 2014 6:53 pm
T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3
T-Mobile's Galaxy Note 3 seems to be picking up the same update treatment as its Galaxy S5 did earlier today, with two different updates hitting devices depending on what version of software they're currently on. For those who were in a VoLTE market and received the first update to enable that service, a 25.79MB update is coming to bring you up to the most recent version, N900TUVUDNF4.

EE to begin trialing calls over Wi-Fi in the UK, 4G support coming in 2015

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Posted by Rich Edmonds on 20 Jun 2014 6:05 am
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UK mobile operator EE has today announced trials for calls to be held over Wi-Fi will commence later this year. The trial is part of a £275 million investment in advanced voice capabilities, helping connect more rural parts of the UK who don't have the strongest levels of signal with EE. Launching the trial later this year, EE has also upgraded both 2G and 3G sites to handle the increased data...

Here's your list of T-Mobile's Wideband LTE and VoLTE markets

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Posted by Jerry Hildenbrand on 18 Jun 2014 9:54 pm
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A big part of tonight's T-Mobile Uncarrier 5 announcement was about the new Wideband LTE network and the VoLTE expansion. Apart from all the funny dialog and fancy slides, CTO Neville Ray took the time to tell us exactly where we'll see these big changes. We've posted the lists from his announcement below.

T-Mobile brings VoLTE to Seattle for a trio of Android devices — see if yours made the cut!

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 22 May 2014 12:44 pm
T-Mobile Nevile Ray
T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray (that's him above) today announced that it's bringing voice over LTE — that's VoLTE — to Seattle for three Android smartphones. The lucky winners are the LG G Flex, Samsung Galaxy Light and the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. This piggybacks off MetroPCS' VoLTE implementation, and it works just like it sounds. Instead of phone calls going through the traditional circuit system...

Verizon to flip the switch on nationwide HD Voice VoLTE in a few months

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Posted by Simon Sage on 20 May 2014 12:38 pm
Verizon LTE logo
Verizon has just announced their plans to start rolling out voice over LTE, also known as HD Voice and VoLTE. The system should be rolling out over the next couple of months, and enable high-quality audio calling provided both users are in an area with a VoLTE network and are using supporting handsets. They'll be using AMR-wideband to deploy HD Voice. Verizon promises this upgrade will also...

AT&T switches on HD Voice in small test markets for a small phone

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Posted by Derek Kessler on 15 May 2014 9:45 am
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini
The long road to nationwide HD Voice coverage has begun for AT&T. So long as you live in select areas of Illinois, Indiana, or Minnesota. And have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. Yeah, they're starting small with this one. HD Voice is a hot buzzword for carriers these days, but so far their implementations have all varied in ways that have proven to be limited and incompatible.

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