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27 2 04 Nokia and Samsung 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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