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18th October 2004 - Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. has launched
Taiwan's first push to talk service, using Nokia's industry-leading
Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) solution, marking a
major step in Chunghwa's drive to bring its customers
next-generation mobile service. Nokia now has commercial
PoC network contracts with 18 GSM operators, and is
trialing with well over 30 operators worldwide.
Under the agreement, Nokia is providing a complete PoC
solution, including system installation and integration.
Nokia's PoC solution is in line with the Industry Consortium
Pre-standards specification and can be upgraded to the
OMA PoC standards, which are expected to be ratified
next year.
"Chunghwa has a close partnership with Nokia in
GPRS and 3G," said Shaio-Tung Chang, President,
Mobile Business Group, Chunghwa Telecom. "With
the launch of PoC, our cooperation now extends to mobile
services and applications. We are happy to be continuing
our work with Nokia to broaden our multimedia service
offering."
"Chunghwa Telecom is one of Nokia's leading customers
in adopting new technologies," said Simon Beresford-Wylie,
Senior Vice President, Networks, Nokia. "Push to
talk service is an important milestone in the multimedia
arena, and is widely considered to be the lead application
using the IP Multimedia Subsystem. We see great promise
also in our on-going cooperation with Chunghwa in the
area of SIP/IMS technology, and look forward to wider
scale pilots of IMS applications in the future."
IMS is the network architecture platform for advanced
IP-multimedia services, such as real time video sharing,
content sharing, push to talk, and various interactive
applications including gaming. IMS also paves way for
the introduction of Voice over IP (VoIP), a key part
of the convergence of fixed and mobile domains. It provides
the connectivity that enables SIP-capable terminals
and devices to establish IP sessions between each other,
over any IP connection, such as GPRS, WCDMA 3G, broadband
home connections or WLAN hotspots.
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