Verizon Commits to Improved PTT Service
Sprint Qchat Is Better
Sprint still will own the market when it come to direct connect almost everyone use this service who will switched to a provider that just created this service less than 2yrs ago nextel has at least 15yrs yes sprint Qchat will not use the Iden network but you still can chirp nextel big benefit also should do some research Qchat this was made exclusively for Nextel with the agreement that they acquired a digital nextel which in return Sprint brought them also the Qchat patient Nextel would have use the Qchat service eventually but it would have cost them too much many to change Iden to CDMA that is where Sprint stepped in do some reshearch Qchat will dominate the market like Nextel has and still is
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You can’t say that this will be better than the competition because Sprint isn’t doing well at all. IDEN is losing customers in droves and the dual mode phones are not doing that well.
The only main differences from Qchat and Brewchat are the interoperability, performance, a little bit on the cost, and the ability to send multimedia and data via the push to talk network. Technically, Verizon isn’t allowed to be offered this given the fact that Qchat is exclusive to Sprint/Nextel. So look for an interesting few months. Of course Brewchat uses Qchat’s properties so we shall see.
The only main differences from Qchat and Brewchat are the interoperability, performance, a little bit on the cost, and the ability to send multimedia and data via the push to talk network. Technically, Verizon isn’t allowed to be offered this given the fact that Qchat is exclusive to Sprint/Nextel. So look for an interesting few months. Of course Brewchat uses Qchat’s properties so we shall see.
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Losing customers has nothing to do with fact this will work better stay on the topic Sprint yes is losing customer mostly Iden also I have a IC 902 CDMA/IDEN phone no problem yet don't know what you are talking about do you own the phone stick to the facts and stop jumping on the bashing Sprint ban wagon
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I am sticking with the point, and I do know what I am talking about. I am saying that with the past trends that Sprint/Nextel is having issues with the power source devices, and its Nextel’s IDEN side (primarily usage is direct connect) it should continue into the future. I have also many of the power source phones before they came out and it was fine but the few thousand people I know who have this device as well as Sprint devices won’t solve the problems that millions continue to leave per quarter. there will always be a set of those on the IDEN network that will need the PTT but it’s hard to convince them of leaving it even when Qchat is better with some of the performance base. Trust me, I know many people who have the IDE...
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nextel18 said:
that millions continue to leave per quarter. there will always be a set of those on the IDEN network that will need the PTT but it’s hard to convince them of leaving it even when Qchat is better with some of the performance base. Trust me, I know many people who have the IDEN network for push to talk and it’s hard to get rid of them. I am one of them.
We know there are just a lot of super sensitive Sprint people who are tired of hearing the painful truth. I left Sprint because my ic502 was a pos, and so was ic902. Hope Sprint pulls this off!
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Well, I had both and they were pretty good. Qchat should be a lot better and people should come over but that doesn’t mean all of them would. We saw what happened when people guessed/estimated how many people would come over from IDEN to the Powersource, and it was nowhere near what happened. That’s why I state facts with great reasoning. Perhaps my bias is a bit towards Sprint/Nextel but I put that aside. I actually have ties to all companies here one way or another.
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Yeah how many actually bought powersource phones? i heard only 1 Million or so?
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"At the end of the fourth quarter (2007), Sprint Nextel served a little more than 35 million subscribers on the CDMA platform, 17.3 million on iDEN and 1.4 million PowerSource subscribers who access both platforms"
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Once Qchat phones are releashed they will sell very well the fact is they are a lot less also the customer will have more opitions some people have not positive to say when it comes to Sprint all they do is bash the customer that sprint is losing a the customers that don't like to pay there bills and now sprint is not giving them everything free anymore also with all the changes it will take time but sprint will bounce back they have over 50 millions customer at the rate do the math it will take 20 plus years for sprint to fall
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Check out the PowerSource devices and only 1.4 million were sold and more than that left from IDEN. Therefore, with the lack of success in the PS phones the trend could continue. Of course with Qchat that bridge is important plus the sub second but on the PS devices you can have the DC anyway but you use the Sprint’s network which is fast and better quality on the voice side, however, the failure with the PS devices seems that they will see similar trends for the Qchat phones. I hope not but that’s what the trends suggest.
50 million customers but check out how many before the merger. Check out how many Sprint had on its network and Nextel had on theirs. It’s a disgrace that Sprint allowed for Nextel to operate poorly, esp...
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50 million customers but check out how many before the merger. Check out how many Sprint had on its network and Nextel had on theirs. It’s a disgrace that Sprint allowed for Nextel to operate poorly, esp...
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I have to agree with this... Sprint took on 20 million new sets of feelings and wallets with no clear plan on how to "welcome" them to their new company, or even what they really intended to do with them. I was actually a once burned Sprint customer that left for Nextel 5 months prior to the merger, imagine my dismay when that happened, then the customer support was enough to bring about serious health problems, all because they went into the deal buying the technology with no real concern aimed at the 20 million PEOPLE that came with it, and so they just let it bob along for years, no real investment in anything new or exciting (Powersource was a real half assed attempt at placation) for those customers.
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Not sure about other sore reps on here, but in all honestly my store never really bought into the powersource solution in the first place; customers that were insistent upon staying with nextel we steered toward IDEN phones, anyone else we generally moved over to sprint. Avg month we did about 60 conversions FROM Nextel to Sprint, and maybe 1 or 2 new Nextel activations. Powersource was never really paid much attention at all, and as soon as the news about qchat releasing in June came about, we started pushing Powersource like crazy just to get rid of the stock.
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Do you work in Sprint customer service? Your grammar looks like a lot of their outsourced reps talk. Reading your posts gave me a headache. Try using a period.
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