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No LTE but yet I get HD Voice

Rusty Shackleford

Jun 20, 2014, 1:39 AM
I'm on Metro PCS which is basically T-Mobile anymore, and I bought a phone recently that does not have LTE yet there are a couple people I call where I get the HD Voice logo on my phone. I thought HD Voice was only going to be handled on the LTE network.

One person in particular I even remarked on the clarity of her voice and then a few phone calls later I caught the logo for the first time. Personally I find this long overdue because the 1890s level of audio quality on both landline and cellular has desperately needed upgrading for decades. Even though HD Voice seems 1980s at best, it is still a huge improvement.

It is funny because this seems so new, yet the only people I get HD Voice with are on T-Mobile and that cheapo Walmart s...
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Labonte

Jun 20, 2014, 7:28 AM
VoLTE and HD voice are two separate things, but I have used both recently and my ears can't really tell the difference. The "cheapy Walmart" service also uses the T-Mobile network.
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Rusty Shackleford

Jun 20, 2014, 10:33 AM
Thanks, I was curious about this. However they're doing this this is long overdue technological advance and dramatically improves things. Audio quality over phones is typically so poor that you basically have to kinda know what the converstation is in order for your brain to fill in blanks the same way your brain probably put the word "the" before the word "blanks" earlier in this sentence. When you are listening to someone read out a list of letters or words you can really tell just how awful audio quality is. I know people with accents that I can understand perfectly fine face to face, but put them on the phone and I have to say "what?" every 10 seconds because the resolution simply isn't there.
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Tofuchong

Jun 20, 2014, 11:27 AM
HD voice was introduced before T-Mobile had an LTE network, back when they were finished rolling out the 21Mbps/42Mbps HSPA+ network, it was available back then on specific devices. As long as both phones support HD voice, you'll get it on HSPA+ and LTE.
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willbx718

Jun 23, 2014, 9:57 AM
I have no idea of what level of service you guys are used to talking on. But I've never experienced as low voice quality over cellular or land line as you guys are talking about. I use Sprint and find the voice quality good enough to have long conversations all the time. I use Verizon FIOS for land line and the voice quality is really good. Not saying HD voice can't improve on these things, but no way has curent voice quality been as low as you guys make it seem. However on the old analog systems that may have been true.
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