Cingular plans simultaneous video/chat within year

Cingular plans simultaneous video/chat within year

We all know that the US telecom companies are into charging for the Internet traffice that was hitherto free. They have realized that the VoIP is here to stay and is a major threat to their mainstay – the domestic long distance – as well as going to hurt the international long distance! So they are tripping over each other to get into this area.. and hopefully do something value-added!

Cingular Wireless plans within the next year to offer a service allowing customers to share videos with each other and talk at the same time, a top executive said on Wednesday.

“It’s a video share service where you can show a video while talking about it,” Cingular’s Chief Technology Officer Kris Rinne said on the sidelines of the Yankee Group Wireless Leadership Summit.Like its rivals, Cingular, a venture between AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp., is pushing services such as mobile video and picture swapping fir cellphones as it hopes to boost its business beyond voice services.

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