VoLTE already delivering the benefits of next generation voice services

All-IP solutions for operators bring benefits to voice-based as well as data services. VoLTE solutions are already available giving customer’s astonishingly rapid call-set up times and delivering enhanced voice quality with HD Voice. In 2014*, there have been major deployments of VoLTE by some of the world’s leading operators and significant growth is anticipated into 2015, and nearly 60 VoLTE capable devices are commercially available. Not only does a VoLTE proposition offer a significant benefit to customers, it also gives operators a potentially more cost-effective mechanism to deliver voice services in the increasingly complex and competitive world of bundled solutions for voice and messaging. The GSMA’s IP communication services solution enables further opportunities to enrich calls with conversational video, enriched messaging services or additional extensions to share a location or a meeting place are seamlessly enabled.