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Officials for AT&T, Nokia outline capabilities of upcoming MCPTT-compliant solutions
Donny Jackson, Apr 20, 2018
Voice services meeting the mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) standard developed by 3GPP—the body that oversees LTE development—will provide greater voice quality, performance and reliability than any push-to-talk-over-cellular (PoC) offering available on the market today, according to officials...
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