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Push to talk' gets international hookup
Motorola and Nextel Communications look set to make a cell phone walkie-talkie feature called "push to talk" (PTT) available to dialers internationally, as rivals struggle to launch their own services inside the United States, according to Business Week. Jordanian carrier Fastlink will be the first company in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region to use push-to-talk (PTT) technology. With PTT, callers need only push a single button to connect to another cell phone. It happens in less than a second, as with walkie-talkies. Because there's no time spent dialing or making a connection to a network, calls are shorter and less expensive than usual. It's won favor with corporations with mobile work forces that can benefit from such instant communication. Recently the Economist published an interesting article on PTT, but from a different perspective, questionning whether PTT would end up being used in America the way SMS is used is elsewhere, further widening the gulf between America and the rest of the world in wireless use. cf Doing the walkie-talkie. If Europe and the Middle East go for PTT, then the cell phone market and the text messaging feature will be an entirely different ball game. |
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