IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced the personal communications services 1900 market in the United States has selected the Enhanced Full Rate voice codec developed by Nokia and the University of Sherbrooke in Canada as the industry standard codec for PCS-1900.
The EFR codec is a coding algorithm that helps convert analog speech into a digital stream that can be modulated for transmission over the radio channel. Nokia said tests on the EFR codec have shown it is comparable to landline voice quality.
