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Motorola Offers Push-To-Talk over Cellular
(PoC) Handset Client Software and Protocol for License to Third-party Device
Manufacturers and Software
Developers
Promotes rapid
adoption of PoC by enabling expanded choice of handsets for operators and
consumers
CANNES, France – February
23, 2004 – Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS),
leveraging its expertise in providing Push-To-Talk over Cellular (PoC)
solutions, today announced at 3GSM in Cannes that it has made its
standards-based PoC client software available for license to third party
GSM/GPRS and UMTS handset manufacturers and software developers. This new PoC
Device Interoperability Program extends Motorola’s prior practice of
providing its interface specifications, and will help speed the introduction of
a wider choice of PoC handsets to market, benefiting both consumers and
operators.
"As a company with decades of
experience in push-to-talk systems and devices, we enthusiastically support all
efforts - through our active engagement in standards development and making
our PoC client available," said Murali
Aravamudan, vice president and general manager, Winphoria
Division of Motorola's GTSS. "We support the harmonization of PoC
specifications among all vendors, and have designed our network solutions to be
compatible with the standards as they
evolve."
Motorola is a leading provider of
end-to-end PoC solutions, offering a variety of commercially available PoC
handsets, device client software, PoC servers, development and integration
support, and interoperability testing.
Motorola’s PoC software client is
designed to run on a mobile phone or voice-capable PDA or laptop personal
computer, and permits a subscriber to communicate with a quick, one-touch
connection to one or many users. It is available to third-party handset
manufacturers either directly from Motorola GTSS or through third-party software
developers.
These developers will create
compatible PoC software customized for the manufacturer’s handsets to
provide new high-end capabilities that enable operators to differentiate their
PoC offering. The PoC developer’s kit is available with protocol
definitions only, or with both the protocol definitions and Motorola’s PoC
software client.
Magic4 and Metrowerks are
participating in Motorola’s PoC Device Interoperability
Program.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global leader in
wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that help make
life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were US$27.1
billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit
people at home, at work and on the move. The company also is a progressive
corporate citizen dedicated to operating ethically, protecting the environment
and supporting the communities in which it does business. For more information:
www.motorola.com.
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Media
Contacts:
Stephanie
Forrest
Motorola GTSS
EMEA
+44 (0)1256 790010
stephanie.forrest@motorola.com
Kathi
Haas
Motorola
GTSS
+1-480-732-2835
kathi.haas@motorola.com
PoC
Device Interoperability Program Contact:
Jeff
Lukens
+1-303-470-3100
jlukens@motorola.com
MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in
the US Patent & Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the
property of their respective owners. © Motorola, Inc. 2004
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