Back to the Future: Push to Talk (PTT) 47s and 46 Create New Market for 'Officeless' Employees. And maybe Instant Social Networks?

Long viewed as part of ‘old fashioned’ two-way trunked radio, ‘Push to Talk’ (PTT) services and shared user groups are suddenly hot as they are reborn on mainstream 4G networks and devices. The architecture and performance characteristics of 4G finally make multi-party calling and secure sharing of data sessions feasible on standard mobile networks. PTT apps for standard smartphones and tablets are creating new growth in a long stagnant market, with developers rediscovering PTT’s unique fast response packet multi-cast capabilities.

1 Executive Summary
2 Back to the Future - Packet Networks for Push to Talk
2.1 3G Evolution for PTT
2.2 Verizon and Boost Mobile pricing PTT aggressively
2.3 Sprint 3G CDMA Direct Connect® is "New Gold Standard"
2.4 Deutsche Telecom outsourced to Talk IP
3 PTT now moving to LTE 4G networks for both Public Safety and Commercial service
3.1 FirstNet Public Safety Network in US will be all LTE
3.2 Status of Public Safety Trials and Vendors
3.3 Bell Mobility PTT Live on LTE
3.4 AT&T is Aggressively Pursuing PTT - Announcing a Customer Charter Program Leveraging Optimized Service Across 3G, HSPA+ and LTE Prior to the Q4 2012 Launch
4 Could PTT become a much broader Enterprise service or a Consumer 'Killer App'?
4.1 Move to Standard Devices may dramatically stimulate 'Officeless Enterprise'
4.2 New Mobile Broadband Apps
4.3 Emergence of Third Party PTT Apps
4.3.1 Over-the-Top (OTT) Apps for smartphones
4.3.2 Major Qualcomm Applications Push with Yagatta platform
5 Implications
5.1 Contact the author of this report: