SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Korea, introduced a photo-music-video (PMV) service at the 3GSM World Congress 2004 in Cannes, France that was developed jointly with Alcatel. The service enables users to produce and send personalized video content to mobile phones or an email address. The message combines digital photos with music and video they like, as well as text and desired effects. The service leverages the Alcatel Mobile Multimedia Service (MMS) platform.
SK Telecom launched trial PMV service in Korea in December 2003 and plans to launch the service commercially in April.
Alcatel said its Linux-based MMS platform, featuring three 2.4 GHz, dual-processor Intel Xeon processor-based rack-mounted servers, can process over 150 MMS messages per second — the equivalent of over half a million MMS messages per hour. http://www.alcatel.com
