Nokia to bring multimedia message delivery to legacy mobile phones

Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway will enable the fast take off of new person-to-person messaging from day one

Nokia today introduced the Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway that will enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia messages to non-multimedia terminals, also referred to as legacy phones. In addition the gateway will provide mobile handset users with the possibility to store multimedia messages in personal albums.

The Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway, an application gateway, complements the earlier introduced Nokia Artuse MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) Center and will be available for mobile operators during fourth quarter, 2001.

The legacy phone support provided by Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway will enable mobile users to participate in multimedia messaging right from the start of commercial services, regardless of the terminal type. Users of legacy phones will get multimedia message delivery as a short message notification including the URL address and the password for retrieving messages by using a web browser. They will also be able to reply with a web created multimedia message or forward a received multimedia message to an email address.

"Nokia has been the key driver of MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) development and sees the future of person-to-person messaging based predominantly on MMS technology," says Pekka Salonoja, Vice President, Server Software Products, Nokia.

"Within the industry legacy phone support plays a crucial role in the initial deployment of multimedia messaging services. We believe that this latest addition to the already extensive Nokia MMS solution portfolio will provide operators with the desired competitive market edge and fuel the adaptation of MMS as a mass market service", he adds.

Personal album storage is another key component of the Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway. Mobile handset users will be able to use personal album for long-term storage and to free up the memory on their MMS terminals. Personal albums may be accessed either via a web interface or a WAP interface. Subscribers will be able to compose and send multimedia messages using the album service, browse existing stored messages, retrieve a previously stored messages from the album and forward a retrieved message to either an email address or another phone


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