Cingular Confirms Push To Talk, Music Plans
Sep 22, 2005, 1:00 PM by (staff)
Cingular today confirmed they will launch Push To Talk (PTT) handsets on their network later this year. Many Cingular handset partners have recently announced partnerships with Kodiak, hinting that the carrier will use Kodiak's RTX as their PTT solution. Cingular also announced they expect to have a music download store next year. The carrier said they hope to offer the downloads for a price just "slightly higher" than the 99 cent price the iTunes Music Store popularized. Cingular also added they haven't decided on a technology or store partner yet, but that they hope to work with Apple.
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I think they should have waited
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rambofone said:...
I think they would be far better off holding off on PTT for a short time. They should focus their efforts right now on the network integration. They will only bring more heat down on themselves when someone signs up
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Thats good news for Cingular!!! QUESTION THOUGH
gunny said:...
Im glad to see Cingular throw its hat into the PTT arena. Because Cingular is using this Kodiak's RTX for there PTT, can we assume it will automatically be better then verizon and sprint? And if its way better, do you t
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Throw in more PTT coverage than ANYONE else and it shou...
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PTT over their entire network???
Anyone have any idea?
They'll also let you convert a PTT call to a regular call with the push of a button have PTT messaging for when you can't answer a PTT call (yup they'll have a do not disturb option fo...
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That being said, it...
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What phones?
I think that would make it the first PTT phone with BT, right?
Fastchat
http://www.fastchat.com/us/ »
I have T-Mobile and a Nokia 3660 (I know that my phone is old) and I have used this to PTT to friends in the US... I must say that having an EDGE phone w/ the same OS would be even better... But I don't pay for any $20 a month thing at all. 4.99 T-Mobile Web (no minutes used) and 4.99 for the fastchat service... The only thing was they are now only working with carriers now... I guess the end user model did not work. It was cool though. I would love to see T-Mobile bring this to the table... This is by far the best PTT/IM software that I have come across.
Cingular's PTT, meanwhile, will use Kodiak's RTX, which has a reputation for being...
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Music Store
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