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24 February 2004 - Nokia and Samsung today announced
a cooperation agreement aimed at bringing Push to talk
over Cellular (PoC) technology to the mass market. Based
on the cooperation, Samsung plans to introduce push
to talk in several of its mobile terminal products during
2004 and 2005, utilizing Nokia's PoC technology.
Nokia provides Samsung with its push to talk technology
as well as interoperability testing and support. Nokia's
push to talk technology is based on open specification
and offers a smooth migration path to the upcoming OMA
standard. Open specifications and standards based solutions
are the key to ensure interoperability and mass market
potential for push to talk.
"Nokia's leading push to talk technology offers
us a competitive platform for commercial push to talk
terminal products", says Andrew Park, Vice President,
R&D, Samsung. "We are planning to introduce
a number of push to talk capable terminals during 2004
and 2005. We believe that the open specifications supported
by Nokia are the key to success in bringing this exciting
feature to our customers globally".
Nokia is also a member of the industry consortium that
worked together on the PoC requirements that were submitted
to the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), where the actual
standardization of PoC will take place, in August 2003.
In October 2003, Nokia launched its carrier grade push
to talk network products for early market entry. In
November 2003, Nokia launched the world's first push
to talk GSM phone, the Nokia 5140. Nokia has been trialling
its push to talk technology with over 30 operators globally.
"Leading operators worldwide have shown strong
interest towards Push to talk and this year we will
see commercial services deployed across the globe",
says Kai Öistämö, Senior Vice President,
Mobile Phones, Nokia. "In the future, we expect
push to talk to become a standard feature in phones,
just like short messaging is today".
During 2004, Nokia will introduce a full range of push
to talk capable GSM phones, including Symbian OS based
smartphones. From 2005 onwards push to talk will become
available for all Nokia GPRS/WCDMA phones.
With push to talk, mobile phone users can use their
mobiles like walkie-talkies, communicating with a selected
group or individual with the push of a single button.
It is a new direct method for one-on-one or one-to-group
communications. Push to talk is especially suited for
cases where users need to communicate repeatedly but
occasionally with the same group or individual.
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