With AT&T Video Share, all of this is possible. AT&T Inc.
(NYSE: T) has announced the nationwide launch of AT&T Video Share
in nearly 160 markets. Video Share is the first-ever service in the
U.S. that enables users to share live video over their wireless phones
while on a voice call.
First-Ever Service in U.S. Enables Live Video Sharing for Users While on Wireless
Voice Call
San Antonio, Texas, July 23, 2007 - Ever wish you could let friends and family
back home see the sights of your vacation while you're enjoying them? Or show
a potential purchase to your spouse — while she's at home and you're at the store?
Or how about sharing baby's first steps with grandma — even though she lives across
the country?
"AT&T Video Share will be groundbreaking in the way life events are captured
and shared," said David Christopher, chief marketing officer of AT&T's wireless
unit. "For consumers, the service offers a new, easily attainable, level of connectivity.
With the streaming video, users can 'see what I see, when I see it.' It's a dramatic
new way to share personal moments and events beyond the capabilities of voice
and text."
AT&T Video Share enables one-way live streaming-video feeds that can be seen
by both parties while they are participating in a two-way voice conversation.
Once the parties have initiated a Video Share call, either one can be the one
generating the video stream for the other to see.
"Video Share is another demonstration of AT&T's advanced network and commitment
to meaningful innovation that improves our customers' communications," Christopher
said.
Video Share works exclusively over the AT&T 3G wireless network and is the
first AT&T application to use the company's emerging Internet Protocol Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) platform. This new platform will be used to deliver a range of
new Internet Protocol (IP)-based services and applications and will increasingly
enable AT&T customers to seamlessly access services and content over both
wireless and wireline network connections.
Ultimately, services such as Video Share will be accessible over any of the three
primary screens that customers use most frequently — the wireless device, the
PC and the television. AT&T Labs researchers today are perfecting service
enhancements that eventually will enable wireless video feeds to be shared over
IPTV or PC screens.
To use the service, a Video Share-capable handset is required. Two Video Share
service packages will be available for $4.99 a month for 25 minutes of Video Share
usage or $9.99 a month for 60 minutes of usage. Users also may choose to pay as
they go and pay 35 cents a minute each time they use the service. Video Share
minutes are charged only to the sender. (See AT&T Video Share fact sheet for
additional details on specific market availability, compatible handsets and service
package details.)
AT&T research has shown strong customer interest in Video Share for a range
of uses, including:
Sharing. Consumers can share moments with family and friends as the moments happen. Providing a Sense of "Being There." Consumers or business contacts can be in
one place while seeing and hearing what is happening in another.
Getting/Giving Advice. Consumers or business contacts can seek advice by sharing
video and audio, as the need arises.
Customers can now purchase Video Share at AT&T retail stores and through
select national retailers. To view an interactive demonstration or find out more
information, customers can go to www.attvideoshare.com.
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