{"id":110334,"date":"2014-09-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=110334"},"modified":"2014-09-22T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T08:01:56","slug":"better-voice-quality-from-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/110334-better-voice-quality-from-vodacom.html","title":{"rendered":"Better voice quality from Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom is running live trials for enhanced voice services, which includes HD voice, echo cancellation, and noise reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom spokesperson Richard Boorman explained that echo cancellation and noise reduction will work on all handsets, while HD voice requires an HD voice capable handset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clear plan is to provide improved voice quality to all of our customers no matter what handset they are using. We\u2019ll be making a proper announcement on this in the near future,\u201d said Boorman.<\/p>\n<p>In August,\u00a0<a title=\"MTN HD voice calling\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/108324-mtn-hd-voice-calls-launched.html\"><strong>MTN launched HD voice calling<\/strong><\/a> technology using the Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) coding standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, there are no HD voice calls on LTE, so this technology applies to 3G calls,\u201d explained MTN SA CTO Eben Albertyn.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More cellular news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/69118-mobile-hd-voice-uncertainty-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Mobile HD voice uncertainty in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/108304-r1-billion-vodacom-gauteng-3g-lte-network-upgrade.html\"><strong>R1 billion Vodacom Gauteng 3G, LTE network upgrade<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom is running live trials for enhanced voice services, which includes HD voice and noise reduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":91363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[21041,637,35,42,1167,41],"class_list":["post-110334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-eben-albertyn","tag-hd-voice","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-richard-boorman","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110340,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110334\/revisions\/110340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}