Mobile telephony operator Connex teamed up with Siemens and Ericsson for the first demonstration, on the Romanian market, of the videotelephony service based on 3G. The event took place at the end of last week.
"This is not jus a lab test," Ted Lattimore, Connex president and COO said before starting what he called "the first 3G video call in Romania." The call was made to an office from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCTI) building. Minister Adriana Ticau answered the phone and she talked with Ted Lattimore for almost 3 minutes.
The demonstration aimed to show that Connex' telephony network is ready for the transition to 3G services, company officials said. "We are determined to continue to develop practical ways for voice, image and videotelephony communication," Ted Lattimore stated.
Speaking about the Romanian market's potential for the shift to 3G commercial services, Lattimore told Ziarul Financiar that "someone will do something in 205," without revealing whether the mobile telephony operator is slated to launch the commercial service next year.
"It is too early to be saying this, " Lattimore said. "The investment in 3G cost us a lot," the company's president and COO said, adding the investment amounted to "tens of millions of dollars."
3G allows the user to rapidly access the Internet, to transfer data and images, to listen to music on the mobile phone and to view web pages.
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