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Deutsche Telekom Announced First Voice Calls over LTE with VoLGA
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by LteWorld
in News, LTE, VoLGA
December 9, 2009 | Cellular-News - Deutsche Telekom announced today the world's first voice call over LTE with excellent speech quality based on VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Access) technology and two independent test environments.
Calls have been made between a test system, installed at Deutsche Telekom Headquarters in Bonn, Germany which is based on a VoLGA implementation of Kineto Wireless and a second totally independent system from Alcatel-Lucent, installed in their test center in Stuttgart, Germany. Both VoLGA-based Voice over LTE systems support inbound and outbound voice calling and SMS messaging between LTE-enabled devices and standard mobile and fixed telephones.
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