Nokia will host commercial Push to chat over Cellular and Presence services for three Scandinavia in Sweden and Denmark, therefore permitting the operator to roll out the solution quicker and efficiently. The service, enabling folks to use their mobile telephones like walkie-talkies, communicating with a selected group or with people at the push of a button, will be launched in Sep .

The accord marks the launch of the Earth's first commercial Open Mobile coalition ( OMA ) -compliant Push to chat over Cellular service, leveraging Nokia's leading position in GSM / WCDMA 3G-based PoC, unique experience from terminals, awareness of patron behavior, and systems integration. The PoC services are interoperable across all OMA-compliant wireless networks and handsets. Nokia will operate the PoC platform from its new Hosting Center to be opened in Vienna, Austria in Sep . 'After a successful push to chat trial with Nokia, we are assured in Nokia's capability to host the service for three enabling us to focus on our core business,' related Jrgen Askeroth, Chief Technology Officer, three Scandinavia. 'Hosting is a rising telecoms industry trend, and an area where Nokia plans to grow.' Hosting is one of the various tools that Nokia can offer operators to help grow their business in the face of ever-toughening competition and growing technological complexity. Hosting sits alongside Managed Services to form one of the main pillars of Nokia's growing Services business unit. Nokia's end-to-end push to talk solution offers a full feature set, and is compliant with the OMA standard.

It also includes Nokia Presence solution which adds a completely new dimension to bump to chat by letting mobile phone customers know how and when they can reach their family, buddies, or associates - before making a call. Nokia Push to chat over Cellular is an element of Nokia's IMS for fixed and mobile offering and compliant with 3GPP IMS standards.

As well as voice, the solution will be capable of supporting various push-to-media, for example video. With commercial contracts for 53 PoC service offerings, and many operator trials continuing, Nokia is leading the market for Push to chat over Cellular in GSM.