Ufone Walkie Talkie Features, Working, Configuration and Pricing Details

For the first time in Pakistan, Ufone provides real time direct one-to-one and one-to-many voice communication. It’s just like children playing with their Walkie Talkies. In the following section, I will write detailed information about its features, how it works and how to configure to use it. The service is available to all prepaid and postpaid customers. A single user can create a maximum of 20 groups with each group having a maximum of 20 members. You can subscribe to more than one package at the same time. Ufone will inform you one day before the expiry of your package via SMS. The user will be charged for both incoming/outgoing minutes. It’s a handset dependent feature. So, you must have Push to talk software available with your handset.

Features

Calling: Subscriber can talk either to any single contact from his contacts list or can talk simultaneously to all members in a group.

Public or Private Groups: In Public groups, if you add your friend in a group then the invited friend can also add members in the same group without your permission. On the other hand, in Private groups, if you add a friend in a group then the invited friend cannot add anyone to the same group. Only you can add members to that group.

Call Back Request: Using Push to talk feature, you can send call back requests to other person if he hasn’t answered your call. The message will be delivered to Push to Talk (PTT) inbox of the receiver.

Fast Conversation: All the participants in a call don’t need to answer the phone. The phone voice will be played through phone loud speaker automatically. Be careful not to disturb anyone in a ‘Silence Zone’.

How it Works?

Only those Nokia handsets which are equipped with Push to talk software and have Ufone’s Walkie Talkie service enabled can enjoy all the benefits listed above. Using this service, you can establish a telephonic conference either with a single person or a number of individuals. Pushing the dedicated key available in Nokia handsets sets up a voice channel to all selected participants automatically. The receiver(s) phone will automatically play the voice through phone’s loud speakers. Once you have completed your message, release the button. Then the second person will push his handset button and send voice over the dedicated voice channel. In this way, communication will carry on. You all will be familiar with this type of communication as all of you must have seen such scenes in Army programs. Also, you might have played with Walkie Talkies in childhood. To use this service, you must have subscribed to this service and have configured your Push to Talk (PTT) settings correctly.

Packages and Charges

Package Name	Subscription Charges	Free Minutes Per Month	Rs. per minute
Package1	50	150	0.33
Package2	100	325	0.31
Package3	300	1100	0.27
Package4	699	3000	0.23

Service Keywords

SMS “Sub” to 788 for subscription, SMS “Set” to 788 for PTT Settings, SMS “help” to 788 for help menu and SMS “Ptt” to 788 for information on remaining minutes.

How to configure Push to talk in your handset?

Once you have subscribed to the package, you will receive instructions in a text message on how to configure your handset correctly. First please check if your handset is compatible. See the image below:-

Nokia S60/N-Series Phones User Manual:-

Select Options > Settings > User settings. Define the following:

	Incoming PTT calls/Accepted list calls — Select Notify if you want to see a notification of incoming calls. Select Auto-accept if you want push to talk calls to be answered automatically. Select Not allowed if you want push to talk calls to be rejected automatically.
	PTT call alert tone — Select Set by profile if you want the incoming call alert setting for push to talk to follow your profile settings. If your profile is silent, you are not available to others using push to talk, except for callback requests.
	Callback request tone — Define the ringing tone for callback requests.
	Application start-up — Select if you want to log in to the push to talk service when you switch on your device.
	Default nickname — Enter your default nickname (20 characters maximum) that is displayed to other users.
	Show my login status — Define whether your login to the push to talk server is shown or hidden from other users.

Connection settings Select Options > Settings > Connection settings.   Define the following:

	Domain — Entered by default once settings are received via SMS from Ufone
	Access point name — By setting received via SMS
	Server address — By setting received via SMS
	User name — By setting received via SMS
	Password — By setting received via SMS

Log in to push to talk service: If you have set Application start-up on in User settings, push to talk automatically logs in to the service when started. If not, you must log in manually. When the Ringing type setting of your device is set to Beep once or Silent, or there is an ongoing phone call, you cannot make or receive push to talk calls.   To make a push to talk call: Select Options > contacts select one or several contacts from the list, and press the voice key. Speak towards the microphone, and do not cover the loudspeaker with your hands. Press and hold the voice key the entire time you are talking. When you have finished talking, release the key. In order to converse using PTT it is impetrative that the contact you are trying to reach has also subscriber to Ufone Walkie Talkie Service. To end the push to talk call, press the end key.When you receive a push to talk call, press the call key to answer the call or the end key to dismiss the call.   Callback requests: To send a callback request, select Options > contacts, scroll to the desired contact, and select Options > Send callback request. To answer a callback request, select Show to open the callback request. To make a push to talk call to the sender, press the voice key.   Contacts view: To view, add, modify, delete, or call contacts, select Options > PTT contacts A list of names from your device Contacts application is displayed with information about their login status. To call a selected contact, select Options > Talk 1 to 1. To make a group call, select Options > Make PTT group call. To send the contact a request to call you, select Options > Send callback request   Create a channel: A channel is like a chat room: you can call the channel to see if anyone is online. The channel call does not alert the other participants; the participants just join the channel and start speaking with each other.   To create a channel, select Options > New channel > Create new Select Options and define the following:

	Channel name — Write the channel name.
	Channel privacy — Select Private or Public.
	Nickname in channel — Enter your nickname (20 characters maximum) that is displayed to other users.
	Channel thumbnail — Insert a picture that describes the channel.
	Delete a channel, press the backspace key. When you log in to push to talk, push to talk automatically connects to the channels that were active when the application was last closed.

Join a channel: To join a channel, select Options > PTT channels Select the channel you want to talk to, and press the voice key. When you have finished talking, release the key. To switch between channels during multiple calls, select Swap. The active channel is highlighted. To view the currently active participants in the channel, select Options > Active members to invite a participant to a channel, select Options > Send invitation

Push to talk log: To open the push to talk log, select Options > PTT log The log shows the date, time, duration, and other details of your push to talk calls. Tip: To initiate a one-to-one call from PTT log, select the desired log event and press the voice key.

Exit push to talk: Select Options > Exit. Select Yes to log out and close the service. Press No if you want to keep the application active on the background.

Nokia S40 Series Phones User Manual:-

Select Menu > Push to talk.

	To connect to or disconnect from the PTT service, select Switch PTT on or Switch PTT off. To view the received callback requests, select Callback inbox.
	To view the list of PTT groups/channels, select Group/Channel list.
	To view the list of contacts to which you have added the PTT address received from Ufone select Contacts list.
	To add a new PTT group to the phone, select Add group/Channel.
	To set the PTT settings for use, select PTT settings.
	To set the required settings for the PTT connection, select Config settings.
	To open the browser and to connect to the PTT network portal provided by the service provider, select Web.

Connect to and disconnect PTT

To connect to the PTT service, select Menu > Push to talk > Switch PTT on.

The phone automatically tries to reconnect to the service until you disconnect from the PTT service. If you have added groups to the phone, you are automatically joined to the active (Default or Listened) groups, and the name of the default group is displayed in the standby mode. To disconnect from the PTT service, select Switch PTT off.

Make and Receive a PTT call: Set the phone to use the loudspeaker or earpiece for PTT communication. When connected to the PTT service, you can make or receive dial out calls, group calls or one-to-one calls. One-to-one calls are calls you make to only one person.

Make a Dial-out PTT call For a dial-out PTT call you can select multiple PTT contacts from the contact list. The recipients get an incoming call and need to accept the call in order to participate. A dial-out call creates a temporary group, and the participants join this group only for the duration of the call. After the call the temporary dial out group is deleted.
Select Menu > push to talk > Contacts list, and mark the desired contacts for the dial-out call. The icon behind the contact in the list denotes current login status. The login status is only available for subscribed contacts. To change the subscribed contacts, select Options and from the available contact list options, Subscribe contact or Unsubscribe. Contact, or if one or more contacts are already marked Subscribe marked or unsubscribe. Marked Press the PTT key briefly to start the dial-out call. The marked contacts are called by the PTT service, and the joining contacts are shown on the display. Press and hold the PTT key to talk to the joined contacts. Release the PTT key to hear the response. Press the end key to terminate the dial-out call.

Make a Group/Channel Call: To make a call to the default group, press the PTT key. A tone sounds, indicating that the access is granted, and the phone displays your nickname and group name. To make a call to a non-default group, select Group list in the PTT menu, scroll to the desired group, and press the PTT key.

Make a one-to-one call: To start a one-to-one call from the list of contacts to which you have added the PTT address, select Contacts list. Scroll to a contact, and press the PTT key. You can also select the contact from Contacts. To start a one-to-one call from the list of PTT groups, select Group list, and scroll to the desired group. Select Options > Active members, scroll to the desired contact, and press the PTT key. To start a one-to-one call from the list of callback requests you have received, select Callback inbox. Scroll to the desired

Receive a PTT call: A short tone notifies you of an incoming group and one-to-one call. When receiving a group call, the group name and the nickname of the caller are displayed. When receiving a one-to-one call from a person whose information you have saved in Contacts, the saved name is displayed if identified; otherwise, only the nickname of the caller is displayed. You can either accept or reject an incoming one-to-one call if you have set the phone to first notify you of the one-to-one calls. If you press the PTT key to try to respond to a group while another member is talking, you hear a queuing tone, and Queuing is displayed as long as you press the PTT key. Press and hold the PTT key, and wait for the other person to finish; then you can talk.

Callback requests: If you make a one-to-one call and do not get a response, you can send a request for the person to call you back. When someone sends you a callback request, Callback request received is displayed in the standby mode. When you receive a callback request from someone who is not in your contacts list, you can save the name to your Contacts.

Send a callback request You can send a callback request in different ways.

	To send a callback request from the contacts list in the Push to talk menu, select Contacts list. Scroll to a contact, and select Options > Send callback.
	To send a callback request from Contacts, search for the desired contact, select Options > Contact details, scroll to the PTT address, and select Options > Send callback.
	To send a callback request from the group list in the PTT menu, select Group list, and scroll to the desired group. Select Options > Active members, scroll to the desired contact, and select Options > Send callback.
	To send a callback request from the callback request list in the Push to talk menu, select Callback inbox. Scroll to a contact, and select Options > Send callback.

Respond to a callback request:

	To open the Callback inbox, select View. The list of nicknames of the persons who have sent you callback requests is shown.
	To make a one-to-one call, press the PTT key.
	To send a call request back to the sender, select Options > Send callback. To delete the request, select Delete.

Save the callback request sender:

	To open the Callback inbox, select View. The list of nicknames of the persons who have sent you callback requests is shown.
	To view the sender’s PTT address, select Options > View PTT address. To save a new contact or to add the PTT address to a contact, select Options >Save as or Add to contact.

Add a one-to-one contact: You can save the names of persons to whom you often make one-to-one calls in different ways. To add a PTT address to a name in Contacts, search for the desired contact, and select Options > Add detail > PTT address. To add a contact to the PTT contacts list, select Menu > Push to talk > Contacts list > Options > Add contact. To add a contact from the group list, connect to the Push to talk service, select Group list, and scroll to the desired group. Select Options > Active members. Scroll to the member whose contact information you want to save, and select Options. To add a new contact, select Save as. To add a PTT address to a name in Contacts, select Add to contact.

Create and set up Groups/Channels: When you call a group, all members joined to the group hear the call simultaneously. Each member in the group is identified by a nickname, which is shown as caller identification. Group members can choose a nickname for themselves in each group.   Add a Group/Channel Select Menu > Push to talk > Add Group/Channel. Select from the following options: Guided — to add a new group. To set the security level for the group, select Public group/channel or Private group/channel. If you select Private group/channel, the phone automatically creates a scrambled part to the group address that the members cannot view when they receive the invitation to the group. Only the person who creates the private group can invite more members to the group. Enter the name for the group. Select Default, Listened, or Inactive. The phone indicates that the group is saved and its status. Default and Listened are active groups. When you press the PTT key to make a group call, the default group is called if you have not scrolled to any other group or contact. To send an invitation to the group, select yes when the phone requests it. You can send the invitation using a text message or IR. The members you invite to the public groups can also invite more members to the group. Manual — to join an existing group. Enter the group address. Select Default, Listened, or Inactive. The phone indicates that the group is saved and its status. Default and Listened are active groups. When you press the PTT key to make a group call, the default group is called if you do not scroll to any other group or contact.

Receive an invitation:

	When you receive a text message invitation to a group, Group invitation received: is displayed.
	To view the nickname of the person who sent the invitation and the group address if the group is not a private group, select View.
	To add the group to your phone, select Save. To set the status for the group, select Default, Listened, or Inactive.
	To reject the invitation, select Exit > Yes, or select View > Discard > Yes.

PTT settings: There are two kinds of PTT settings: settings for connecting to the service and settings for use, you can receive setting by sending “set” to 788.

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