NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS told analysts and investors at a Merrill Lynch communications conference that they expected to launch push-to-talk functions on their networks this year.
AT&T Wireless chief financial officer Joseph McCabe said the carrier expects to test the service in Seattle during the fourth quarter and plans to launch the product in other markets in 2004.
Sprint PCS CFO Robert Dellinger said the CDMA carrier would offer a push-to-talk handset sometime this year.
“We are working on it,” Dellinger said.
Verizon Wireless and Alltel Corp. have also announced that they are working on offering a push-to-talk service similar to what is currently offered by Nextel Communications Inc.
