Vodafone UK today announced that it tested Voice over LTE that offers both call and data services without disturbances at its laboratory in Newbury.
As and when launched, Vodafone customers can benefit from increased voice call quality and performance and high quality video calling. The company is yet to announce the official launch of VoLTE.
Recently, Vodafone has deployed its 2.6Ghz spectrum on a small cell system using Huawei’s Lampsite technology. Employees and visitors to Huawei’s UK headquarters can experience 4G data speeds of up to 82Mbps downlink and 42MBps uplink.
Fergal Kelly, CTO at Vodafone UK said: “We’ve been continually developing and investing heavily in our UK network since it launched nearly 30 years ago. Our trial of VoLTE, less than a year after the launch of our 4G network, is the next major innovation, and is hugely important as we continue our work to build the UK’s best network.”
In the last few months, Vodafone, which competes with EE, has expanded its 4G coverage to 263 larger cities, towns and districts as well as thousands of smaller communities across the UK. This expansion is part of £1 billion it is spending on its UK network and services this year.
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