Hello, Our company has developed OMA based PTT, which is also working against Nokia terminals. Nokia has around 20 PTT terminals on market for GSM networks at the moment.
Here short description of our solution: http://www.wirelesszt.com/en/Products/Push+To+Talk++%28PoC%29 Here is list of compatibles Nokia phones: http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,73,00.html -- Henri Hovi > Sprint (US), which recently purchased Nextel (which now will become Sprint > Nextel, oh what genius came up with that name?), also provides a PTT > function. The Sanyo 4920 includes this feature. I don't believe it took > off as well as Nextel's service, but Sprint does provide it on some > handsets. Not iDen based. > > I don't believe they market it heavily, but they do offer it as a service. > > I wonder if it is possible to do a voice-recognition application via > PTT... > probably not via kannel... > > Beckman > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The only vendor I know of who has profitably went with any type of PTT >> function is the US company NexTel with a motorola iDen service. >> >> There was an attempt by Verizon to market a similar product (I believe >> it >> was also iDen technology, but could be mistaken) but network >> provisioning >> was half-hearted and had lags that literally ranged to minutes for a >> message to be received. For something marketed as "Walkie-talkie", quite >> disastrous to sales and client retention. The Verizon package died a >> quick and horrible death leaving only NexTel as a vendor providing such >> a >> service (I've heard some rumors of Sprint toying with it, but since >> acquisition...) >> >> Of course the iDen standard is a bit different than the standard >> proposed >> by OMA. I DO know that I saved quite a bit using iDEN PTT comms at work >> and at home due to the flat rate, but the plans were substantially >> higher >> as there is no competition. >> >> In the US there is little incentive to substantially increase the levels >> of service to what is fairly standard elsewhere in the world. Vendors >> lock their phones to only be capable of operating on THEIR network, even >> if their competitor uses the same equipment, services are primitive >> compared to anything available on the Pacific rim and Europe, indeed >> primitive compared even to the middle east! That's what "one stop >> shopping" and "off the rack" purchasing does for you. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Internet > Guy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.purplecow.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
