30 March 2007

Next generation 3G solutions gets accessible for all

Major telecommunications companies pick up technology originally developed for deaf people’s communication.

Telecommunication features of essential value for deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind and speech-impaired people have been incorporated in a recently approved mainstream standard for 3G and Next Generation Networks.

This is a big step towards the goal to make mainstream telecommunications useable for all, says Gunnar Hellström, CEO at the accessible information technology company Omnitor, and original author of the standard for real-time text communication now picked up as one medium in the 3G Multimedia Telephony specification approved by the international 3G standardisation organisation 3GPP.

The new 3G standard includes real-time communication in both video, real-time text and voice, and is a great promise for disabled people, who often experience that mainstream communication leaves the features they need behind.

Press information:
CEO Gunnar Hellström
Phone +46 708 204 288
E-mail/SIP gunnar.hellstrom@omnitor.se

Press release (PDF):

Pressrelease_March-2007

3GPP TS 26.114 3rd Generation Partnership Project. Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects. IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).Multimedia Telephony.