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Telecoms Announce "One Voice" Initiative To Promote LTE Wireless Broadband Stand

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wars-fought-with-dollars dept.

suraj.sun writes to mention that Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks may have just gotten a boost over WiMax in the battle for wireless broadband dominance. A group of telecom companies has created the "One Voice" initiative, designed to promote a standard that will provide interoperability for broadband voice and SMS. "LTE has been fine at supporting data, which uses IP-based packet switching. But it's faced challenges trying to incorporate traditional circuit-based switching voice and SMS services onto IP-based networks. One Voice is the group's attempt to resolve that issue. The new specification will use existing functionality known as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), which already defines how to provide data, voice, and other content over an IP-based network. IMS was established by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a group comprised of telecom industry associations trying to set standards for 3G mobile networks."

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  1. SMS? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hard to see how SMS is not compatible with packet switching. TFA just seems to say Voice and SMS everywhere as if they were the same thing.

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  2. Re:VOIP? by sahonen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That all sounds like a bunch of work to prop up a business model that simply doesn't make sense anymore. Different billing for voice and data made sense when voice and data were legitimately different types of data, but here in the magical fantasy future year of 2009, a kilobyte of voice takes exactly the same effort to deliver as a kilobyte of data. Stop overcomplicating your business and just charge me by the fucking kilobyte already.

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  3. Re:SMS on the Internet, efficiency issues. by rdoger6424 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because the SMS system there was (is?) so broken that people had to use email.

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  4. Re:VOIP? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    a kilobyte of voice takes exactly the same effort to deliver as a kilobyte of data

    Not true. If my voice packets have 200ms of jitter then the conversation will be unintelligible. If my YouTube video data (for example) has 200ms of jitter then I won't even notice.

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