Last year a crowd of telecoms companies said they'd developed the 'One Voice' initiative, which was a technical profile for voice and SMS services on 4G LTE networks.
This week the GSMA says it's adopted the work of the One Voice Initiative, which will now be called Voice over LTE (VoLTE). That means no more Barry Manilow jokes, although many other puns are still possible.
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Twenty-four of the world's largest telecommunications operators have formed an alliance to build an open platform that delivers applications to all mobile phone users.
América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT, mobilkom austria group, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, SingTel, SK Telecom, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, VimpelCom, Vodafone and Wind have created the Wholesale Applications Community, which is also supported by the GSMA, LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
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Microsoft has revealed the long-awaited and much-rumoured new generation of its mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone 7 Series. There's a strong focus on seamless connectivity and aggregated services, with social networking updates available in real time. There'll also be access to Xbox Live information and the 'Zune' music player. The company says phones will be available in stores by the end of the year.
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