Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Push-to-Talk Specification Submitted to Open Mobile Alliance

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:52:42 -0400

Push-to-Talk Specification Submitted to Open Mobile Alliance In a cooperative
effort to guarantee interoperability, Siemens Mobile, Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia
completed a Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) standards specification. The
specification has been submitted to the Open Mobile Alliance standards body for
review.

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  Handset Vendors Develop Push-to-Talk Standard

  (08/09/2003, BWCS Staff) Handset
  manufacturers Siemens Mobile,
  Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia have
  finalised a specification for a
  Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC)
  standard in a joint effort to ensure
  interoperability for the technology.
  The quartet have submitted the
  specification, based on the IP
  Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), to the
  Open Mobile Alliance standards body
  for review.

  Push-to-talk technology, which has
  been pioneered by Nextel in the US,
  allows users to be connected to a
  pre-selected buddy or group of
  buddies with the push of a button
  and has been predicted to boost
  phone usage as push-to-talk enabled
  handsets become more widely
  available. The common PoC standard
  aims to provide the same
  functionality across different
  operator networks and geographic
  markets. “End-users want to be able
  to use any enabled handset on any
  available network without having to
  worry about if they work together,”
  said Ericsson’s SVP of Marketing and
  Strategic Business Development,
  Torbjorn Nilsson. “This is true for all
  mobile services and push-to-talk will
  be no different.”

At the same time as speeding up connection between phone buddies and encouraging
users to treat their mobiles like ‘walkie-talkies’, push-to-talk opens up
opportunities for a raft of location-based services, which is one of the reasons
operators are keen to adopt the new technology.  In the US, Verizon Wireless has
been working on a version which includes automatic notification if friends are
present on the network – similar to Microsoft’s Instant Messenger application on
the internet. This led to fierce rivalry between Verizon and Nextel, with both
operators ending up in court when Verizon accused its smaller competitor of
industrial espionage (see Mobile Data Daily, 30/06/2003).

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