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Telecom Companies Intro SMS and Voice-Over-LTE Solution

Nov 4, 2009, 8:16 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Today a number of global telecom companies, including AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson, introduced a new standards based solution for voice and SMS services over Long Term Evolution. The One Voice initiative is a 3GPP-compliant technical standard that uses IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology to allow for voice and SMS traffic to transit LTE wireless networks. The companies involved believe this solution permits for the widest compatibility for wireless network operators, telecom equipment makers, and handset makers. It also ensures world-wide roaming over LTE networks. This new specification competes with two other proposed specs, including the one introduced by VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Acces) Forum and the 3GPP's own Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB). CSFB would allow devices to revert to GSM or UMTS for incoming and outgoing voice calls.

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Azeron

Nov 4, 2009, 10:40 AM

Incredible!

These guys were very sneaky! The folks at VoLGA either did not know about this or ignored it as a threat. They spent most of their time bashing CS fallback. I wonder what their response will be? They may as well fold up their tents if these heavy weights are all on the other side.

JeffdaBeat

Nov 4, 2009, 9:56 AM

160 Characters....

How about we up it just a bit...

Wait...that wouldn't be smart for CellCo's...they would rather it take me two text to send a message instead of one...

Jayshmay

You could do what I do, use MMS as email, you can do much, much longer messages on MMS.

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