Max Touch successfully installs Supersound EFR coding in Mumbai

MUMBAI, September 2: Hutchison Max Telecom, the cellular service

provider in Mumbai, has successfully introduced the latest in coding

technology called Enhanced Full Rate (EFR). The new technology feature

provides superior speech quality that is comparable to fixed lines (PSTN),

thereby give a super sound performance.

The supersound EFR feature, voice quality enhancement, will be

noticeable to users in almost all usage situations, especially in the

higher pitch range. The introduction of supersound EFR will substantially

reduce background sounds as it has the capability to cut down on

surrounding sounds around the speaker and hence facilitate the speaker to

speak in normal tone.

Hutchison Max COO Sandip Das said, "Two of the main issues a

cellular subscriber looks for is good reliable coverage and superior

speech quality." EFR is a coding algorithm that facilitates the

conversion of analog speech into a digital data stream that can be

modulated for transmissions over narrow-band channel. The aim of speech

coding is to compress the signal as much as possible in order to achieve

maximum capacity utilization with excellent speech quality.