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French carrier selects PoC solution from Motorola

PARIS-Motorola Inc. and Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator, announced a contract to deliver Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) services using Motorola V400p handsets. Bouygues Telecom will make its voice messaging services commercially available to enterprise and professional customers this month, Motorola said....

Nokia showcases 3 new smart phones, PoC client

Nokia Corp. used its Nokia Mobility Conference last week in Monaco as a platform to showcase several new products, including its new smart-phone offerings: the Nokia 7710 widescreen multimedia smart phone, the Nokia 3230 megapixel smart phone and the mid-range Nokia 6020 camera phone....

French carrier selects PoC solution from Motorola

PARIS-Motorola Inc. and Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator, announced a contract to deliver Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) services using Motorola V400p handsets. Bouygues Telecom will make its voice messaging services commercially available to enterprise and professional customers this month, Motorola said....

Nokia showcases 3 new smart phones, PoC client

Nokia used its Nokia Mobility Conference in Monaco as a platform to showcase several new products, including its new smart-phone offerings: the Nokia 7710 widescreen multimedia smart phone, the Nokia 3230 megapixel smart phone and the mid-range Nokia 6020 camera phone. "Smart phones are...

T-Mobile selects PTT technology from Nokia

ESPOO, Finland-T-Mobile International said it plans to offer Nokia's Push to Talk over Cellular network solution in Germany in the fourth quarter. The carrier said it plans to introduce it in other markets later. "Our long and successful cooperation with Nokia coupled with its...

T-Mobile selects PTT technology from Nokia

ESPOO, Finland-T-Mobile International said it will offer Nokia's Push to Talk over Cellular network solution in Germany in the fourth quarter of this year.The carrier said it plans to introduce it in other markets later."Our long and successful cooperation with Nokia coupled with its...

Nextel, Amdocs extend services agreement

Amdocs and Nextel Communications Inc. have extended their managed services agreement, initially signed in 2000, by more than two years, to the end of 2011. Nextel and Amdocs said they will continue working together to enhance Nextel's customer care and core billing operations, including...

Nokia to expand Brazilian network

ESPOO, Finland-Brazilian mobile operator TNL PCS (Oi Celular) has selected Nokia to expand its GSM/EDGE network in an $115 million deal.Nokia will expand and upgrade Oi's core network by implementing a core network solution, including the first Nokia MSC Server system in the Americas,...

Samsung, Sony Ericsson show megapixel camera phones

Continuing the recent flood of camera-phone announcements, Samsung released plans for a 3.2-megapixel digital camera phone, the SPH-S2300, that it said includes features that align its capabilities with those of a digital camera.The phone includes a 3X optical linear zoom, along with a 4X...

Samsung, Sony Ericsson introduce megapixel camera phones

SEOUL, South Korea-Continuing the recent flood of camera-phone announcements, Samsung released plans for a 3.2-megapixel digital camera phone, the SPH-S2300, that it said includes features that align its capabilities with those of a digital camera.The phone includes a 3X optical linear zoom, along with...

Fastmobile, Spectel partner for PTT interoperability solution

CHICAGO-Mobile instant communications provider Fastmobile Inc. reported a development partnership with integrated conferencing solutions provider Spectel to develop interoperability between Spectel's MobileConneXion mobile conferencing solution and the push-to-conference and instant-message capabilities of Fastmobile's Fastchat service. The companies noted the agreement will allow Push to...

Fastmobile, Spectel partner for PTT interoperability solution

CHICAGO-Mobile instant communications provider Fastmobile Inc. reported a development partnership with integrated conferencing solutions provider Spectel to develop interoperability between Spectel's MobileConneXion mobile conferencing solution and the push-to-conference and instant-message capabilities of Fastmobile's Fastchat service. The companies noted the agreement will allow Push to...

Nokia launches PTT consultation service directed at businesses

Amid suspicion it plans to walk a lone path on the Push-To-Talk over Cellular technology, Nokia Corp. has launched a PoC consultancy service to allow operators launch PTT services for the enterprise market.The Finnish vendor said the service is available in all the major...

Sprint alters PTT price, adds phone

Bolstering its Ready Link walkie-talkie offering, Sprint PCS launched its fifth Sanyo handset for the service, which the carrier said now includes more than 275,000 users. Sprint also rearranged pricing for the service to align more with the carrier's PCS Vision wireless data service.The...

Nextel still king of PTT hill

Nextel Communications Inc. continues to dominate the walkie-talkie space and is not expected to relinquish that lead for some time, despite recent attempts by Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and Alltel Corp. to garner some of the push-to-talk pie. Nextel reported more than 13.3 million...

Acrimonious acronyms

I awoke in a panic the other night. Was I dreaming, or is it really true that the wireless industry has been slipping? Where to find the truth? Ah, I could find the answer in acronyms. With every new technology developed, for every new...

Cellcom to roll out PoC in Israel

HERZLIYA, Israel-Israeli operator Cellcom will roll out Nokia's Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) service. Commercial PoC service is scheduled for the second quarter 2004. Nokia says its carrier-grade PoC solution provides a smooth network software upgrade path to the upcoming OMA standard for...

Cellcom to roll out PoC in Israel

HERZLIYA, Israel-Israeli operator Cellcom will roll out Nokia's Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) service. Commercial PoC service is scheduled for the second quarter 2004. Nokia says its carrier-grade PoC solution provides a smooth network software upgrade path to the upcoming OMA standard for...

PTT gains global momentum

CANNES, France-A variety of players were among the companies making announcements on the push-to-talk front, further evidence that players across the globe are gearing up to offer the service.First, Fastmobile Inc. announced a deal with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to ensure its Fastchat Instant...

Alltel PTT performance closes in on Nextel

Nextel Communications Inc. may have finally found some competition for its highly touted Direct Connect walkie-talkie service as independent testing of Alltel Corp.'s recently launched Touch2Talk service showed similar performance to what most analysts have dubbed Direct Connect's industry-standard service levels and superior performance...

Sonim Technologies ships PTT software solution

SAN MATEO, Calif.-Sonim Technologies Inc. said it has begun shipping its Push to Talk over Cellular standards-based PoC Client software solution. The company noted the client has been field-tested as an integrated client on handsets from several manufacturers, including full PoC interoperability tests together...

Ericsson to verify products using PoC standard

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has expanded its programs to verify and integrate products in line with open, cross-vendor specifications for Push to talk over Cellular technology.Ericsson is one of the vendors to define and back the PoC standard and claims to have connected...

Ericsson to verify products using PoC standard

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has expanded its programs to verify and integrate products in line with open, cross-vendor specifications for Push to talk over Cellular technology.Ericsson is one of the vendors to define and back the PoC standard and claims to have connected...

Magic4 offers PTT PoC messaging client

WARRINGTON, United Kingdom-Messaging software company Magic4 said it will jump into the push-to-talk game with its new Push To Talk over Cellular (PoC) messaging client.The company said its new messaging client is based on the Session Initiation Protocol industry standard and will allow users...