In 2013, nothing says you’ve hit the commercial mainstream
more than going Gagnam Style with Korean rapper Psy. So it was fun to stumble across a commercial
the superstar made for the South Korean operator LG U+.
What’s especially fascinating here is the fact that LG U+ is
promoting VoLTE so explicitly. There
have been doubts in some quarters about whether VoLTE was anything but a
replacement service. We disagree with
that, of course. We
see VoLTE, in conjunction with RCS, as an indispensable platform to deliver
HD voice, video and multimedia services across multiple devices and access
technologies.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Telefónica demonstrated
a seamless voice call handover from a 4G to a 3G mobile network, and they
summed its strengths up nicely in
a release:
“A key advantage of VoLTE is that it can be combined with
several enhanced IP-based services such as High Definition Voice, presence,
location, and Rich Communication Suite (RCS) additions like instant messaging,
video share and enhanced phone books. Moreover, VoLTE enables prioritization
over other data streams to deliver consistently high quality service levels.”
In short, VoLTE is a way for telcos to build on their
historic strengths as they enter the all-IP age, so it’s nice to see LG U+
taking it up Gagnam Style. The company has competition in the Korean VoLTE
market too. SK Telecom launched VoLTE at
the same time as LG U+ last year, and it is aggressively
pushing both HD voice and the RCS-based service joyn, in conjunction with
VoLTE.
And now that we’ve brought up HD voice, we also see it
gaining some traction with the public.
It might not be Psy-level, but GSMA made HD
voice T-shirts that were distributed at the Mobile World Congress.
And that makes us want to dance “VoLTE style” with Psy once
again.
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