Comments on: Will voice-over-LTE become a casualty of the T-Mobile-MetroPCS merger? http://gigaom.com/2012/10/10/will-voice-over-lte-become-a-casualty-of-the-t-mobile-metropcs-merger/ Thu, 23 May 2013 00:50:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Marcelo Puig http://gigaom.com/2012/10/10/will-voice-over-lte-become-a-casualty-of-the-t-mobile-metropcs-merger/#comment-1067626 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:56:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571767#comment-1067626 Maybe the reason is because the MNO’s does not want to kill the regular and profitable voice service…

]]> By: guest 1 http://gigaom.com/2012/10/10/will-voice-over-lte-become-a-casualty-of-the-t-mobile-metropcs-merger/#comment-1065152 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:35:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571767#comment-1065152 Metro already launched Volte in the dallas market and will proceed to launch volte in other markets by the end of the year.

]]> By: saykredcow http://gigaom.com/2012/10/10/will-voice-over-lte-become-a-casualty-of-the-t-mobile-metropcs-merger/#comment-1063929 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:05:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571767#comment-1063929 Kevin,

Doesn’t T-Mobile technically ALREADY have this technology on hand with their current WiFi Calling system in place? Originally UMA however at the end of last year T-Mobile switched their WiFi Calling technology to be IMS-based with all phones released since the HTC Amaze and Samsung Galaxy S II. A lot of people speculated the reason for the switch to IMS WiFi Calling was so calls between WiFi and LTE could be handed off in the future.

If you look at the technology carriers are going to use for VoLTE it looks like it’ll be IMS for a lot of them. Can’t seem to find anything anywhere on WHY T-Mobile switched to IMS WiFi Calling but preparing for a voLTE solution seems like it would make sense.

Also how different would WiFi Calling and VoLTE be? I would imagine since both are voice/text over strictly data they could work interchangeably with little effort. Also I’m wondering if T-Mobile recent announcement they made their whole network IPv6 capable helps out with any technical aspects?

]]> By: Adi http://gigaom.com/2012/10/10/will-voice-over-lte-become-a-casualty-of-the-t-mobile-metropcs-merger/#comment-1062531 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:39:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571767#comment-1062531 What you don’t understand is that VoLTE needs to come with support for legacy in terms of service being able to hand over a call to CS when LTE hands over to HSPA. Because of that a VoLTE deployment is very complex and vendors of equipment are not ready yet to support SRVCC. T-Mobile can’t launch VoLTE without SRVCC. You can also check that CS fallback is in plan for all including ATT exactly because the technology is not ready. Sure VoLTE is desired and T-Mobile is ready for it – check the WIFI calling solution they have that is using the same back-end IMS.

]]> By: Patrick Kabir http://gigaom.com/2012/10/10/will-voice-over-lte-become-a-casualty-of-the-t-mobile-metropcs-merger/#comment-1061055 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:01:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571767#comment-1061055 It seems given LTE’s weaker signals that perhaps its not so much of a plan to drop VoLTE it may just no be as feasible as we all hoped. s4gru.com has a excellent forum post about VoLTE vs traditional CDMA, this case Sprint’s x1 Advanced voice carrier, vs VoLTE. I recommending checking it out. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/2247-volte-vs-1x-advanced/

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