Cingular to offer Video Sharing in 2007
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Cingular to offer Video Sharing in 2007
Imagine using your mobile handset to send video — live — on a phone call.
Clay Owen, Director – Public Relations, left, and Ellen Roberson, Director – Marketing, demonstrate Cingular's new video share technology at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Consider the possibilities: sending a grandchild's live Little League game to grandparents, sharing vacation sights live or just waving and saying "hello!" to your best friend.
On Sunday at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Cingular brought this technological feat one step closer to customers by becoming the first wireless carrier in the United States to demonstrate a live "video share" call.
No other U.S. wireless carrier providing 3G services currently makes this offer because only Cingular's UMTS/HSDPA (Universal Mobile Telephone System/High Speed Downlink Packet Access) network has the ability to provide simultaneous voice and data.
How It Works
Beginning with a regular call on Cingular's 3G network, customers press a button on a 3G, video-enabled handset to add a live video stream, allowing the called party to see what the caller is seeing while they're talking.
The service also allows customers to switch the direction of the video stream during the same call.
So, a couple in San Antonio could call their parents in Miami, and, once the call is connected, press the camera button on the phone to start the video session.
The parents receive an invitation asking if they want to view the live video stream, and, once accepted, they begin seeing the video captured by the callers in Texas.
The speakerphone turns on and the proud new grandparents in Miami can see a live video of their granddaughter taking her first steps or saying her first words.
"In the case of this technology demonstration, seeing is believing," said Kris Rinne, Senior Vice President – Architecture and Planning, AT&T. "Consumers can get a real feel for what 3G wireless can do and what to expect in the future."
Available Later this Year
Cingular expects to make the video service commercially available in 2007.
Cingular's 3G mobile broadband service is currently available in 165 major U.S. markets, and network expansion will continue this year.
The 3G service is also available in more than two dozen countries, and Cingular expects services such as these to work wherever GSM-based 3G networks are available.
Clay Owen, Director – Public Relations, left, and Ellen Roberson, Director – Marketing, demonstrate Cingular's new video share technology at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Consider the possibilities: sending a grandchild's live Little League game to grandparents, sharing vacation sights live or just waving and saying "hello!" to your best friend.
On Sunday at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Cingular brought this technological feat one step closer to customers by becoming the first wireless carrier in the United States to demonstrate a live "video share" call.
No other U.S. wireless carrier providing 3G services currently makes this offer because only Cingular's UMTS/HSDPA (Universal Mobile Telephone System/High Speed Downlink Packet Access) network has the ability to provide simultaneous voice and data.
How It Works
Beginning with a regular call on Cingular's 3G network, customers press a button on a 3G, video-enabled handset to add a live video stream, allowing the called party to see what the caller is seeing while they're talking.
The service also allows customers to switch the direction of the video stream during the same call.
So, a couple in San Antonio could call their parents in Miami, and, once the call is connected, press the camera button on the phone to start the video session.
The parents receive an invitation asking if they want to view the live video stream, and, once accepted, they begin seeing the video captured by the callers in Texas.
The speakerphone turns on and the proud new grandparents in Miami can see a live video of their granddaughter taking her first steps or saying her first words.
"In the case of this technology demonstration, seeing is believing," said Kris Rinne, Senior Vice President – Architecture and Planning, AT&T. "Consumers can get a real feel for what 3G wireless can do and what to expect in the future."
Available Later this Year
Cingular expects to make the video service commercially available in 2007.
Cingular's 3G mobile broadband service is currently available in 165 major U.S. markets, and network expansion will continue this year.
The 3G service is also available in more than two dozen countries, and Cingular expects services such as these to work wherever GSM-based 3G networks are available.
Imagine the uses for this (both devient and useful).
on to the next one...
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Originally Posted by amisconception
Anyone have a good write-up on 3g?
This feature sounds cool. Cingular is going to make the switch from Verizon easier and easier for me.
This feature sounds cool. Cingular is going to make the switch from Verizon easier and easier for me.
I'll likely be making the VZ to Cing switch later this month. About the same time they roll-out 3G in my area 
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