ESPOO (dpa-AFX) - Nokia (NOK) has successfully demonstrated the 'world's
first cellular call using new Immersive Voice and Audio Services or IVAS' codec,
making a breakthrough in voice communication technology.

According to the company, the latest technology provides real-time experience to
the caller, where they can hear everything clearly on the call as if they are
with the other person.

The technology provides three-dimensional sound experience to callers, compared
to today's monophonic smartphone call experience, where the sound is compressed
into a single channel.

The first immersive call was made by Nokia's President and CEO Pekka Lundmark to
Stefan Lindstrom, Finland's Ambassador of Digitalization and New Technologies,
using the 3GPP IVAS codec over a 5G network.

'We have demonstrated the future of voice calls,' commented Lundmark.

'This groundbreaking audio technology takes you to the caller's environment
creating a spatial and massively improved listening experience for voice and
video calls, offering significant benefits for enterprise and industrial
applications,' the CEO continued.

The Finland-based company added that the IVAS codec technology has not been
implemented in mobile networks yet.

'The live immersive voice and audio experience enabled by IVAS improves the
richness and quality of the call, and the three-dimensional sound experience
makes interaction more lifelike and engaging, bringing a wealth of new benefits
to personal and professional communication,' said Lindstrom. 'Immersive
communications technology will also take XR and metaverse interaction to the
next level.'

Currently, the IVAS codec technology is used in apps like Netflix (NFLX), Apple
Music (AAPL), and Disney Plus (DIS) to offer lifelike audio experience to users,
The Verge reports.

'This is now becoming standardized . so the network providers, chipset
manufacturers, handset manufacturers can begin to implement it in their
products,' Nokia President Jenni Lukander told to Reuters.



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