
Episode 105: Telephony
Android Developers Backstage
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Is LTE the New Hotness?
The new hotness is LTE. And for LTE, they're trying to get to IP-only networks,. So they're doing it as a VoIP call. It's a SIP call over their IP network. You've got this whole chunk of bandwidth that you've got reserved in case somebody wants to make a phone call. Well, there also means that potentially we could simplify the hardware and the software that goes into our smartphones if there was only data for everything. Unfortunately, we're not there yet. Yeah. The largest LTE rollouts in the US, they still don't have anywhere close to their full footprint, as far as I know. They all support failover back to
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