Quick Summary of LTE Voice Summit 2015 #LTEVoice

Quick Summary of LTE Voice Summit 2015

#LTEVoice

Zahid Ghadialy Nov 2015

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This is an informal write up of interesting bits from the LTE Voice Summit 2015. E&OE.

A similar write-up of the same event last year was

very much appreciated and is available here.

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Not many presentations were shared this time around so I have added photos wherever possible

Tom Bennett – EE

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YoungNahn Baek – LGU+


YoungNahn Baek – LGU+


Interesting feature being shown by LGU+ where you send your photo to the callee

Shannon Bell – Amdocs


Shannon Bell – Amdocs


Yang Qin – Huawei


Huawei’s presentation was pragmatic and to the point, shame it wasn’t shared

Yang Qin – Huawei


Yang Qin – Huawei


David Artuñedo – TU-Go-Telefonica






In my point of view, ‘saving on roaming’ is the killer feature of TU Go.

Bejoy Pankajakshan – Mitel (Mavenir)


Bejoy Pankajakshan – Mitel (Mavenir)


Paul Gowans – Viavi Solutions (JDSU)






Kobus Smit – Deutsche Telekom


Deutsche Telekom is adding an urgency button and other new features to voice/video call

Divya Ghai Wakankar – BICS


Divya Ghai Wakankar – BICS


Motohiro ABE – NTT DOCOMO


NTT Docomo did not share their presentation. It was on S8HR roaming solution and is similar to an earlier blog post on the 3G4G blog available here.

http://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2015/07/s8hr-standardization-of-new-volte.html

Ajay Joseph – iBasis


See my blog post on VoLTE roaming, including this presentation by iBasis on the 3G4G blog here.

http://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2015/10/volte-roaming-lbo-s8hr-or-hbo.html

Saverio Caracozzi – Italtel












Tim Rawling – BT


Susan White – Alcatel-Lucent


http://www2.alcatel-lucent.com/landing/mobile-market-research/









Reinhard Lauster – Deutsche Telekom


Christian Menini – Swisscom


Huang Haifeng – Communications World, Huawei












Mark Windle – OpenCloud


Chloe(Go-Eun) Lee – SK Telecom
















Petrit Nahi – Tektronix (NETSCOUT)


Petrit Nahi – Tektronix (NETSCOUT)


Michael Thelander – Signals Research Group


Michael Thelander – Signals Research Group


This presentation can be downloaded from SRG website here

http://signalsresearch.com/issue/video-over-lte/

Final thoughts

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While there is good progress being made rolling out VoLTE, there is no clear monetisation opportunity.

There are still comparisons being made with OTT and VoLTE is being billed as competitor to OTT but it’s the same as comparing ‘apples to oranges’. Nobody seemed to mention that international texts / calling using OTT

is free

VoLTE is already complex to implement and roll out; SRVCC is even more complicated, best to avoid if possible.

Its still not clear which VoLTE roaming solution will win.

VoWiFi is working much better than anticipated. Since being supported in iPhone 6/6+, its really caught on.

Its good to see some operators are aware of disruptive technologies like WebRTC but are they prepared?

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Quick Summary of LTE Voice Summit 2015 #LTEVoice