Nokia Wideband Speech Coding Proposal Selected as CDMA2000 Standard

The 3GPP2 Alliance selected Nokia's proposal for standardizing a CDMA2000 wideband speech codec from a field of five such proposals. Nokia said the new Variable-Rate Multi-Mode Wideband speech codec (VMR-WB) offers superior wideband speech quality at data rates comparable to current narrowband speech codecs, resulting in highly intelligible and natural speech that represents a quantum leap over the quality of both today's wireless and wireline networks. The VMR-WB standard is not only fully compliant with the CDMA2000 rate-set II but is also interoperable with the AMR-WB standard selected by the 3GPP for use in GSM/WCDMA networkshttp://www.nokia.com