High-speed video coming for mobile phone users
Welcome to the new era of communication where voice, data and multimedia services can be integrated and run simultaneously in real time. With the advent of new technology called IMS (Internet protocol Multimedia Subsystem), the way people use applications or communicate with each other via cell phones will change.
Instead of communicating through distant machines, IMS turns each cell phone into either a host server or a client, allowing them to talk to each other directly.
Sitting on top as the core of a mobile network, IMS will merge voice, data and video, to create new IP-based multimedia applications and services for mobile users. Through its existing services such as video-telephony and live streaming chat, high-speed video-file sharing on a phone is becoming possible.
In the move to introduce users to rich multimedia applications and services over EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) networks, two mobile operators - Total Access Communications Plc, the mobile-phone operator under the DTAC brand; and Advanced Info Service Plc (AIS) - have invested in the new technology.
Aiming to fully utilise the capacity of its EDGE network, DTAC has been working to create multimedia applications to enable users to take advantage of video, voice and data completely integrated over a network using IMS.
“Taking online games as an example, when you play an online game, your phone will no longer have to go through a server. You will be able to challenge others directly, in real time. With this, the phone will become a game device enabling users to play in the same way they play an online PC game,” said Pipatpong Poshayanonda, group director of products and services at DTAC.
