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Push to talk Spam
pixel_pixel
10-10-2010
I was at work yesterday and when I got to my stuff in my locker, I had a push to talk message. It looks like a dodgy website so I did not go to it.

What is push to talk and how can someone spam me from it. there was a mobile number it came from on the message.

Just curious to what it is

thanks
Thine Wonk
10-10-2010
PTT is where you can communicate with a contact by selecting somebody in your contact list and sending them a live voice message.

Kind of like a walkie talkie, we don't really do it in the UK. It's quite big in the US as the networks don't charge for it.

Only Orange UK support PTT, and only certain handsets, in the UK it seems to be mainly a niche business tool that isn't really promoted.

People keep saying it's coming to the UK, but it's blatantly not as no provider has any interest in promoting it.
prking
10-10-2010
PTT was offered in the UK several years ago. But never caught on.

I doubt very much that the OP got a PTT message. I expect it was a Service Message or a Push WAP message.
Thine Wonk
10-10-2010
I was thinking that too prking.
psionic
10-10-2010
It's a shame PTT never really caught on here - especially if free like in the US...
eddieh
10-10-2010
Remember having a Nokia that supported it and I was puzzled what the feature was about. Not enough hype about it when it arrived over here for it to kick off really.
prking
10-10-2010
Originally Posted by eddieh:
“Remember having a Nokia that supported it and I was puzzled what the feature was about. Not enough hype about it when it arrived over here for it to kick off really.”

There was a huge amount of hype about it. It was very competitively priced as well. Much cheaper than SMS at the time. Its one of those things (like video calling) that sounds a good idea, but in practice is pointless.
You have to remember that in the US, sms was much slower to take off and more expensive. Now that its more commonplace, they have also all but abandoned PTT.
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