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Simon Templar - 28 May 2006 19:29 GMT

Does anyone know of any third party PTT services that are not reliant on
a carrier? Here in Australia there has been a half hearted
implementation of PTT by only a couple of the carriers and my carrier
has said they will not be providing PTT.

The only other option I can see is if there are any third party services
that PTT enabled phones can make use of without being tied down to a
particular carrier. Does this exist?

I have a Nokia 6680 PTT enabled phone and have other friends that want
to make use of PTT also.

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Jer - 28 May 2006 20:14 GMT

> Does anyone know of any third party PTT services that are not reliant on
> a carrier? Here in Australia there has been a half hearted
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> I have a Nokia 6680 PTT enabled phone and have other friends that want
> to make use of PTT also.

Considering all the technical issues required to offer PTT service, I
don't think we'll ever see PTT provided by a "third" party (whomever
that is). A PTT-capable handset without PTT service from the chosen
carrier is a handset with a useless feature. I think we've all heard
rumors of Cingular's efforts for a PTT service, but nothing has yet
arrived on their public network AFAIK.

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