3 Hong Kong, the third largest mobile operator in Hong Kong announced the completion of an inter-operator Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) roaming trial with Japan’s NTT DOCOMO, enabling HD voice and video roaming between the two operators. The trial involved the S8 Home Routed (S8HR) architecture, an LTE data roaming-based technology that can be deployed without IMS interaction between both parties.
3 Hong Kong in a statement said that it will continue working closely with NTT DOCOMO and other partners to take the VoLTE roaming experience to other geographies.
Jennifer Tan, HTHKH’s Chief Operating Officer
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