James Delahunty
2 Apr 2007 18:20
Rogers Communications Inc. will become the first carrier in North America to offer its users the ability to make video calls with their mobile phones, the company revealed on Monday. Rogers is Canada's biggest wireless provider, touting more than 6.8 million customers. Subscribers will be able to use their mobile phones much the same was a webcam to complete a phone call.
Rogers is utilizing its new High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network to make the video calls possible and also offer some video content from web sources including YouTube's weekly top 50 video clips. Rogers and other carriers are looking to multimedia services to help fill in the gaps as revenue generated from voice calling slows down.
Source:
Reuters