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23rd December 2004 - Eurotel Praha has launched the
Czech Republic's first Push to talk over Cellular technology,
using a state-of-the-art solution provided by Nokia.
Eurotel will follow this initial launch of technology
with a full commercial launch in early 2005.
In addition to a complete PoC solution, Nokia is providing
implementation and care services for the deployment
of the solution. Nokia is also supplying Nokia 5140
mobile phones, which support PoC. Nokia has been Eurotel's
main supplier of GSM network systems since 1996.
"Over the years, our cooperation with Eurotel has
been extremely important to us," said Matti Palomaki,
Country Director, Networks, Nokia. "We are pleased
to see this close cooperation strengthened even further
with the launch of this attractive and instant form
of mobile communications."
"We have always looked to Nokia for innovative
end-to-end solutions," said Michal Herman, Chief
Executive Officer of Eurotel Praha, spol. s r.o. "Nokia's
support leading up to the launch of our push to talk
technology has been key to bringing this exciting technology
to our market. We strongly believe that push to talk
will open up new communication possibilities to our
customers."
With more than 30 operator trials ongoing and commercial
contracts with 22 operators, Nokia is leading the market
for Push to talk over Cellular in GSM. Nokia's solution
offers a full feature set and smooth migration to the
upcoming Open Mobile Architecture (OMA) standard, and
it is compatible with the IP multimedia subsystem as
standardized in 3GPP.
Nokia has introduced several push to talk phones. The
Nokia 5140, Nokia 6260, Nokia 6170 and Nokia 7270 are
already commercially available. The Nokia 6020 and Nokia
3230 are expected to be shipping in the first quarter
of 2005. Also, users of Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia
6670 or Nokia 7610 are able to use push to talk by downloading
the push to talk client to their terminals. From 2005
onwards, push to talk will become available for almost
all Nokia GPRS/WCDMA phones.
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