Worldwide PTT Service?

Has anyone heard of either company. I notice the article is based out of Shaumburg, Il. home to several Motorola campuses, wonder if there is a connection. Interesting they state the service should be in the U.S. by the endo of the year.

FastMobile completes push-to-talk test


Jan. 22, 2003 11:46 AM EST

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.â??FastMobile said it successfully completed a voice push-to-talk test between Chicago and London using two standard mobile phones operating with the companyâ??s fastxt walkie-talkie technology.

The company said the test used two standard mobile phones and a FastMobile server, which routed the digitized voice and text conversations across the GSM networks.

The company said the service will be available in the United States by the second quarter of this year.

Courtesy of rcrnews.com