The Next Big Thing for mobile phones will help out carriers and smartphone makers quite a bit. Consumers? Not so much.

 

If you haven't already, soon you're going to be hearing a lot about a new standard for making mobile phone calls: VoLTE. It stands for "voice over LTE," but what it really means is that before long, your voice calls are going to be transmitted across the airwaves using the same technology the Internet pioneered for data (...)