Sprint Rebrands, Drops Nextel From Name
What about network technologies?
I hate to say it, but Sprint is dragging its heels worse than Verizon with its mergers, and much worse than Cingular with AT&T Wireless.
I mean, granted, Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless was with Cash, so Cingular didn't have to deal with board members from that company, unlike Sprint/Nextel which was a stock acquisition.
Cingular immediately starting to push for the "extinction" of AT&T Wireless's TDMA services, pushing just weeks after the merger was final for TDMA customers to convert to Cingular GSM. They left the AT&T Wireless GSM customers alone and would just convert those accounts over to Cingular's system. It was rough at first, but now Cingular is in the last phases of completely shutting down the TDMA networks, ...
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I mean, granted, Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless was with Cash, so Cingular didn't have to deal with board members from that company, unlike Sprint/Nextel which was a stock acquisition.
Cingular immediately starting to push for the "extinction" of AT&T Wireless's TDMA services, pushing just weeks after the merger was final for TDMA customers to convert to Cingular GSM. They left the AT&T Wireless GSM customers alone and would just convert those accounts over to Cingular's system. It was rough at first, but now Cingular is in the last phases of completely shutting down the TDMA networks, ...
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The difference between the Cingular, AT&T merger (original merger), and the Sprint-Nextel merger is this; TDMA only provided phone service, while iDEN provides PTT.
QChat deployment, even if it could be sped up, is YEARS from replacing iDEN PTT. This is why it isn't going anywhere soon. Under ideal conditions, QChat is still TWICE as slow, and that under ideal conditions. Nobody even knows for sure how it would perform over the entire network with thousands of folks using it.
The bottom line is that current data speeds offered by EVDO will not match an "always on" instant connection of a true two-way radio service. In fact, the fastest internet connection over cable or DSL on a regular home computer won't even come up with the same spe...
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QChat deployment, even if it could be sped up, is YEARS from replacing iDEN PTT. This is why it isn't going anywhere soon. Under ideal conditions, QChat is still TWICE as slow, and that under ideal conditions. Nobody even knows for sure how it would perform over the entire network with thousands of folks using it.
The bottom line is that current data speeds offered by EVDO will not match an "always on" instant connection of a true two-way radio service. In fact, the fastest internet connection over cable or DSL on a regular home computer won't even come up with the same spe...
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