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Its going to be hard to beat G.729's 6-8kbps bitrate. I can barely hear the difference between G.729 and G.711 on our voip system.

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Interestingly the G.729 patent pool also expired this year:

http://www.sipro.com/G729.html

> since Licensors have agreed to license the unexpired Licensed Copyrights and Licensed Patents of the G.729 Consortium Patent License Agreement under the existing terms on a royalty-free basis starting January 1, 2017.

Am I reading that right? The consortium has graciously begun issuing royalty-free licenses now that the patent has expired?

How nice of them.

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