HD Voice on Vodafone?

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#928346 6-Nov-2013 18:44

Tell me who and I will ban his account!

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#928349 6-Nov-2013 18:49

freitasm: Tell me who and I will ban his account!

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#928352 6-Nov-2013 18:58

What determines whether a handset will call in HD: any random phone that has HD enabled, or does the Vodafone network decide only these "..." handsets can?

E.G. if I pull out the Nokia N8, which I believe is HD capable and de-branded so shouldn't have HD locked out, will this work in HD even though it may not be on Vodafone's HD list?

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#928353 6-Nov-2013 18:59

coffeebaron: E.G. if I pull out the Nokia N8, which I believe is HD capable and de-branded so shouldn't have HD locked out, will this work in HD even though it may not be on Vodafone's HD list?

Yes it will work

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#928357 6-Nov-2013 19:09

freitasm: Tell me who and I will ban his account!

I called him :)

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#928360 6-Nov-2013 19:17

johnr:
freitasm: There you go... Tried to call JohnR for a test and guess what happened on the Supernet?

You called me when another Geekzone user called me right at the same time

Still remember calling john to test out video calling!

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#928363 6-Nov-2013 19:23

andrewcnz:
johnr:
freitasm: There you go... Tried to call JohnR for a test and guess what happened on the Supernet?

You called me when another Geekzone user called me right at the same time

Still remember calling john to test out video calling!

Shall I hang up now? handset is getting warm

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#928364 6-Nov-2013 19:27

Will there be any HD voice interlinks to voip providers that support HD codecs like 2talk or Snap?

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#928367 6-Nov-2013 19:35

Does Vodafone's interconnect with other carriers support G722??

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#928368 6-Nov-2013 19:37

coffeebaron:
freitasm: The video is a bit of an exaggeration... I never heard static in digital calls. Background noise and breaking up because of bad coverage, yes, but static? Nope.

They must have made the non-HD call on Telecom's AMPS network :)

Actually calls on the old AMPS network were way better than GSM in it's day..

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#928370 6-Nov-2013 19:43

old3eyes: Does Vodafone's interconnect with other carriers support G722??

AMR-WB (G.722.2) and G.722 are both very different.

99% of links between telcos in NZ are still TDM/SS7 based so interoperability isn't going to exist. Even in the future there is no guarantee of this occurring for a long time as it requires transcoding which means resources have to go into this.

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#928374 6-Nov-2013 19:52

sbiddle:
old3eyes: Does Vodafone's interconnect with other carriers support G722??

AMR-WB (G.722.2) and G.722 are both very different.

99% of links between telcos in NZ are still TDM/SS7 based so interoperability isn't going to exist. Even in the future there is no guarantee of this occurring for a long time as it requires transcoding which means resources have to go into this.

so if Telecom supports HD voice at some point, it will likely still be only internal to each network i.e. no VF-Telecom or Telecom-VF HD voice?

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#928381 6-Nov-2013 20:06

Called a colleague with iPhone 5 and heard HD voice for the first time. Man, so clear it was kinda freaky.

I'd call JohnR but I don't know his number ;-)

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#928384 6-Nov-2013 20:23

NonprayingMantis:
sbiddle:
old3eyes: Does Vodafone's interconnect with other carriers support G722??

AMR-WB (G.722.2) and G.722 are both very different.

99% of links between telcos in NZ are still TDM/SS7 based so interoperability isn't going to exist. Even in the future there is no guarantee of this occurring for a long time as it requires transcoding which means resources have to go into this.

so if Telecom supports HD voice at some point, it will likely still be only internal to each network i.e. no VF-Telecom or Telecom-VF HD voice?

Correct. Technically it is possible (and there are providers overseas doing AMR-WB and G722 on the VoIP) but unless they move away from legacy interconnects that won't happen here.

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#928385 6-Nov-2013 20:33

sbiddle:
NonprayingMantis:
sbiddle:
old3eyes: Does Vodafone's interconnect with other carriers support G722??

AMR-WB (G.722.2) and G.722 are both very different.

99% of links between telcos in NZ are still TDM/SS7 based so interoperability isn't going to exist. Even in the future there is no guarantee of this occurring for a long time as it requires transcoding which means resources have to go into this.

so if Telecom supports HD voice at some point, it will likely still be only internal to each network i.e. no VF-Telecom or Telecom-VF HD voice?

Correct. Technically it is possible (and there are providers overseas doing AMR-WB and G722 on the VoIP) but unless they move away from legacy interconnects that won't happen here.

well that sucks.

I imagine 2Degrees will start bleating to the comcom about how this is an unfair advantage that VF has over them, like they did with on-net/off-net pricing differentials.

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