Mobile phone firm Orange is the first UK network to use a technology that offers its customers higher quality voice calls.

Orange has run trials of the technology in the south west of England and now plans to introduce it across the country.

High Definition (HD) voice is said to provide a reduction in background noise as well as minimising the interference that is often heard on normal mobile phone calls.

The technology used is also known as Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) which has been adopted internationally as a standard for 3G mobile networks.

AMR-WB is what is known as a speech-codec. This means that software compresses a voice signal to maximise the amount of bandwidth on a network, simply allowing high quality calls.

With other countries currently using this technology, it is thought that it won’t be long before other UK networks follow in the footsteps of Orange.

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