2. Background for Global Text Telephony 1 Background for development of Global Text Telephone services 3GPP TSG S1 #8 April 10-15, Beijing Agenda item 6.6.1 Presentation by Gunnar Hellström, Ericsson TSGS1#8(00)0223

3. Background for Global Text Telephony 2 Users of text conversation 6% of the population has limited use of voice telephony 5% are Hard - of - hearing -- need text or lip-reading 2 per 1000 are Deaf - need text, signing or lip-reading Many are deaf by age – need voice out – text in. 1 per 1000 are Speech impaired - need text one way, voice in the other + visual contact 1 per 10 000 are deaf-blind - need tactile and visual enlargement + All of us need language amplification by text and video Conclusion: Clear need for text conversation services

4. Background for Global Text Telephony 3 User needs in ”ETSI ETR 333 Text Telephony, User Requirements and Recommendations”. Character set for any language used (ISO 10 646) Transmission character by character. Suitable transmission rate. 10 – 15 char/second. Display so that it is easy to follow the conversation even if both are writing concurrently. Simple editing consisting of new line and erase last character. Visual call progress and network info Combination with voice

5. Background for Global Text Telephony 4 Important requirements on text telephone services Emergency services Relay services, for translation between text and voice, for accessibility to all voice telephone users Interoperability wherever voice services are offered. Not continue the fragmentation of text telephony from the PSTN

6. Background for Global Text Telephony 5 Status of standardisation Main work in ITU-T SG16 Q9. Accessibility to Multimedia for people with disabilities. Main work 1997-2000: –Add a text conversation facility in a clean way to all Multimedia Protocols. –Mainenance on the automoding modem standard V.18.

7. Background for Global Text Telephony 6 T.140, the common base for text conversation Extremely simple text chat protocol User input to Unicode UTF-8 coded transmission UTF-8 transmission to display Easy to include everywhere What is the street address? Alameda 34 User T.140 Channel

8. Background for Global Text Telephony 7 Total Conversation - a growing family V.18 Texttelephony Trans parent Equal - izers T.140 PSTN H.223 V.34/V.80 AL1 H.245 H. 324 T. 140 Voice and video PSTN H.221 Network access H. 320 H.224 T. 140 Voice and video ISDN H.323 H.225.0 Network access T.140 RTP H.245 Voice and video IP H.324 Mobile system H.223 Mobile transmission Voice and video AL1 H.245 T.140 RTP H.323 Mobile system H.245 H.225.0 Mobile transmission Voice and video T.140 T.124 GCC T.134 T.120 Data conferencing T.123 T.140 DATA CONF. H.248 Annex F Text Conversation gateway Ready On the way Mob Texttelephony T.140 MOBILE Proposed work

9. Background for Global Text Telephony 8 Total Conversation – a full example, but subsets are possible Video Text Voice

10. Background for Global Text Telephony 9 V.18 An automoding modem - a bridge to unify a fragmented world Can be used in terminals, gateways and servers USA, UK USA Holland Germany France Anywhere Sweden, UK Example of use

11. Background for Global Text Telephony 10 Existing text telephone methods Summary Text telephony suffers from not being harmonized V.18 is created to be a vehicle for harmonization All current methods are possible to use and should be expected to continue to exist for many years. New services should offer harmonised international communication

12. Background for Global Text Telephony 11 Expectations on mobile text telephony Internationally useful – based on T.140 Interoperability with legacy modes text telephones through V.18. Interoperability with other mobile textphones Digital wireless interface from handset to text device. Complete handsets with text foreseen Text and voice combinations

13. Background for Global Text Telephony 12 Short term proposals –Audio coding of text. –Data path with voice

14. Background for Global Text Telephony 13 Long term expectations on mobile text solutions Total Conversation implementations with Video Text and Voice Mobile variants of H.324 and H.323 with text conversation additions Interworking with land based variants of Multimedia protocols and text telephony

15. Background for Global Text Telephony 14 Proposed actions for Global Text Telephony Start a work item in 3GPP SA for Global Text Telephony Specify –Service description –Architecture –Coding –Interworking –Terminal aspects (?) Aim at short term completion Dec – 2000, long term completion Dec 2001