The full impact on the iMessage system on mobile voice consumption is yet to be determined.
There is plenty of potential left in mobile voice traffic, notes Paul Lee of Deloitte Consulting.
Ericsson is banking on greater demand for mobile voice and data traffic in Europe to fuel growth.
This is an interesting contrast to mobile voice and SMS consumption patterns.
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But we already have a number of low-cost, bare-bones mobile voice providers.
But if mobile voice pricing continues to fall this might not be enough to convince people that they still need a phone line in their home.
In the most typical scenario, the consumer had opted for a 750 minute monthly package, while the actual mobile voice consumption was at or below 250 minute level.
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The US carriers want to be one step ahead of the curve that could lead to declining mobile voice revenues in markets where consumers still have the option to pick a voice minute bucket.
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The success of mobile HD voice in these adjacent countries, alongside their linguistic and cultural proximity, is at the root of Orange Romania and Orange Moldova's decision to extend the mobile HD voice offering between their two countries.
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Ellis thinks the pace of innovation is speeding up, especially in mobile and voice recognition.
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Orange already offers mobile HD voice in 14 countries: Moldova, Armenia, Belgium, France (Metropolitan and Reunion), Spain (Catalonia), United Kingdom, Egypt (Cairo), Luxembourg, Mauritius, Romania, Dominican Republic, Kenya, Uganda and Jordan.
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In January , T-Mobile announced HD Voice was available on a handful of phones including the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One S. The carrier also said last month it will have HD Voice on the iPhone 5, to be rolled out on T-Mobile's networks in the U.S. for the first time later this month.
From now on, when a call is made between two HD voice mobile phones from these countries, Orange customers will enjoy crystal clear sound instead of "standard" voice quality.
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Today, the majority of blind and visually impaired people use simple 2G mobile phones for voice telephony only.
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Mr. Leveson's inquiry, which began hearings last autumn, came in the wake of an uproar over illegal mobile-phone voice-mail hacking and alleged bribes-for-scoops at News Corp.
The company saw a 14.3% drop in primary residential switched-access phone lines, as consumers continued to move toward voice over IP and mobile devices for most of their voice calls.
China Mobile, the largest mobile service provider in the world, derives most of its revenues from mobile services as well as value added services like data, SMS, mobile Internet, voice mail and other features.
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As the world's first operator to launch HD voice in Moldova in 2009, Orange is pursuing a strategy to make HD voice mobile generally accessible, for it to become the communication standard of tomorrow.
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The U.K. government ordered the inquiry in July amid a public outcry over a scandal at News of the World involving interception of mobile-phone voice mails of crime victims, politicians and celebrities in pursuit of scoops.
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Despite all the advances in mobile data, voice is still a significant component of carrier revenues.
More than 300 million U.S. wireless devices rely on mobile broadband for their voice, data and internet services.
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Cricket offers nationwide wireless voice and mobile data services over high-quality, all-digital 4G LTE and 3G CDMA wireless networks.
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Nina can also interact across devices and applications, so that customers can choose to connect by voice, mobile device or web page or any combination and still retain the context of the interaction.
These intelligent, voice-enabled mobile technologies will make healthcare faster, easier and more versatile than ever before.
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Taobao offered instant messaging and voice mail to mobile phones for buyers and sellers because Chinese users were cell-phone savvy rather than computer savvy.
Getting back to basics could increase voice revenue for mobile operators but that does not mean that consumers are completely turned off by more advanced services.
Because it provides an alternative, low-cost mobile communications service, Google Voice is often compared to both Skype and Vonage though each is based on slightly different technology.
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It is unclear if Microsoft will have voice support in Mobile Server, but it does not plan to offer speech recognition in Windows 2000 until some time in 2002.
"We believe there's a large group of increasingly sophisticated Internet users who are underserved by voice-centric mobile providers, " said EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ) founder and Chairman Sky Dayton , who will serve as chief executive of the joint venture, during a press conference.
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