INDUSTRY EXPERTS ARGUE P2T'S FUTURE ROLE

摘要

Push-to-talk competition has barely started, but already analysts, vendors and carriers are suggesting the so-called killer app may just be the tip of a multimedia iceberg, the rest of which will be revealed if carriers are willing to look below the waterline. This much became apparent at the Yankee Group's 2003 North American Mobile Messaging Forum last week in Chicago. During a panel debate on how push-to-talk (P2T) will evolve, Yankee Group analyst Adam Guy and speakers from Ericsson, Nextel Communications, fastmobile, Sonim and Comverse posited that the one-button application eventually will be used on all types of mobile devices as a single interface to many messaging and realtime communications apps.