Sprint to Launch HD Voice This Year - Though HD Voice Over LTE Won't Be Mainstream Until 2014

One of the biggest benefits of the shift to LTE will be the introduction of high definition voice, a long overdue and potentially significant ramp up in current phone call audio quality. Even Verizon, who leads in the deployment of LTE, has delayed introducing LTE voice (or HD voice) because of the problems with handing calls off between LTE and older network technologies. Sprint is now saying they plan to launch HD Voice service by the end of the year for the HTC EVO 4G LTE. Still, like AT&T and Verizon, Sprint doesn't expect higher definition voice services to really begin to take off until sometime later in 2013, with the conversion nearing... [via Dslreports]