Tokyo and London, February 11, 2005- NEC Corporation (NEC) will demonstrate not only a specific novel 3G mobile data application but at the same time demonstrate the potential of creating ever new services efficiently based on a rich set of basic application building blocks provided by NEC. As one example an interactive e-commerce application is demonstrated showing how the latest IMS services like Instant Message, Presence and Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) can be combined easily to create even more powerful and user friendly mobile multimedia services. Online multimedia communication experience is provided through an intelligent integration of context information, i.e. presence status, with group messaging, and interactive Push-to-Talk sessions. With this rich set of communication capabilities we can map real life scenarios into advanced applications much more flexibly than by using a single communication mode. Thereby we can build new services which are easy to use and which offer improved user experience, a key prerequisite for quick adoption by a large user community. This new technology has been developed by researchers in NEC Europe Ltd. European Network Laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany. The new mobile services are in-line with the latest specifications of the Open Mobile Alliance for PoC, PAG and Service architecture, where NEC's researchers are actively contributing to the further evolution of the OMA specifications.

NEC is a leading total solution provider in the mobile Internet market. It has been among the first companies to provide commercial 3G network infrastructures. At this time NEC is offering beyond 3G capabilities like a complete IMS platform and HSDPA network access, as well as a rich set of mobile services. In order to accelerate the deployment of new IMS-based mobile services, NEC is collaborating with mobile network operators in trialing its mobile Internet platform and helping them to create innovative mobile multimedia services to generate new service revenue streams.

Recently, NEC's European IMS test bed at its Network Laboratories in Heidelberg has been made available for mobile operators to experience first hand the capabilities and broad range of services offered by NEC's IMS solution. The Heidelberg IMS test bed is also available for joint research and development of new mobile multimedia services. Trialing of IMS functions and services can be executed locally or remotely, just as the demonstration at this 3GSM show is supported by remote servers in Heidelberg and Japan.