Wideband Voice

Wideband voice continues to gain steady momentum over traditional telephony formats because of its features, which include:

• Higher quality sound transmission
• Background noise reduction
• Doubling of traditional telephonic 8,000 times per second sampling
• Sound spectrum width increased from 50 Hz to 7 KHz
• Bandwidth requirements decreased to 32 Kbps - half the required maximum for public switched telephone networks (PSTN)

Wideband voice has been globally adopted by multiple countries and regions, including:

• United Kingdom (Orange)
• India (TATA-DOCOMO)
• Egypt (Orange and Mobinil)
• Switzerland (Orange)
• Russia (Megafon)
• Malta (Sky Telecom)
• Germany, Armenia, Belgium, France and Spain