LTE Now Ready for Use With Voice and Video Telephony

LTE Now Ready for Use With Voice and Video Telephony PR Newswire VIENNA, October 15, 2012 VIENNA, October 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New LTE mobile telephony standard to launch eSRVCC soon. T-Mobile, Huawei and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have executed a new technology trial enabling a voice handover from LTE to 3G without any perceivable interruption for the user. The new LTE mobile data transfer standard can now be used for seamless handover of voice calls and video telephony from LTE to legacy 3G/UMTS networks. As LTE network coverage is still restricted at this early stage, new technology had to be developed to enable users to switch seamlessly from LTE back to existing 3G/UMTS networks during the course of a call without any perceived interruptions. Until now, this had proved impossible, presenting network operators piloting LTE technology throughout Europe with a major challenge. T-Mobile Austria and Huawei, working with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, have now demonstrated voice call continuity from LTE to 3G/UMTS network following the 3GPP Rel. 10 standard. In the future, users throughout Europe will be able to switch from LTE to standard mobile telephone networks without any noticeable interruptions. This now means that nothing stands in the way of a changeover to LTE voice-enabled mobile telephones and other state-of-the-art handsets for users across the continent.