Guangdong MCC demonstrated Nokia's Push to talk over Cellular technology to the public at World Telecom Day on May 17. Following the initial service trials, Guangdong MCC will undertake market trials, where its lead customers will trial push to talk with Nokia terminals over Nokia Push to talk over Cellular infrastructure. Guangdong MCC intends to launch push to talk commercially in the second half of this year.
With push to talk, mobile phone users can use their mobiles like walkie-talkies, communicating with a selected group or an individual with the push of a single button. The service is a new direct method for instant one-on-one or one-to-group communications.
"Nokia's world-leading PoC technology has confirmed the strong market potential of this service. We believe push to talk will enrich the way people communicate, and will be attractive both to the enterprise and the mass market," says Li Gang, General Manager of Guangdong MCC.
"We are pleased to partner with Guangdong MCC, and their confidence in our service has given us the momentum to introduce standards-compatible push to talk technology in China. We trust that with our advanced end to end solution offering, we can offer Guangdong MCC a unique and attractive solution for push to talk," says Brian Ng, Vice President of Networks, Nokia China.
Guangdong MCC serves over 30 million mobile subscribers in southern China's Guangdong province.
Nokia's carrier grade Push to talk over Cellular solution provides competitive performance, a full feature set, and a smooth network software upgrade path to the upcoming Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standard. With more than 30 operator trials ongoing, and five public commercial contracts, Nokia is leading the market for Push to talk over Cellular.
Nokia launched the world's first push to talk capable GSM phone, the Nokia 5140, in November 2003. During 2004, Nokia will introduce a full range of push to talk capable GSM phones, including Symbian OS based smart phones. From 2005 onwards, push to talk will become available for virtually all Nokia GPRS/WCDMA phones.
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