Verizon Commits to Improved PTT Service
The Facts About This...
Sprint's QCHAT will be able to PTT Nextel users, which is where the overwhelming majority of PTT users are.
NOBODY is leaving Spring because another carrier has better PTT, and theyre more likely to just come back when they see that along with downright SAD data offerings, nobody but NOBODY offers PTT to par with Sprint Nextel.
willv said:
i have been looking, and havent seen anywhere that says vzw's ptt wont work with sprint/nextel... i'm not doubting it wont work, i would just like to see it say it wont work
Whether it works or not, very doubtful that the two companies will allow it.
SouthernLinc and Nextel are both iDEN PTT networks and could conceivably communicate via PTT, but there is no agreement in place to allow this for SL and Nextel users.
Brewchat is garbage, sure it runs on the same RevA, but wheres the backbone??? Will your brewchat be compatible with IDEN's 20 million customers? NO. like i said NOBODY is or will be up to par with their service offering in terms of overall reliability OR customer base(20 million reasons to go with Sprint Nextel over vzw). Oh, and look for it to cost extra for verizon, its built into ALL of Sprint/Nextel's plans.
carmodboy99 said:
UHHHHH DO I EVEN NEED TO SAY THIS??
NOBODY is leaving Spring because another carrier has better PTT, and theyre more likely to just come back when they see that along with downright SAD data offerings, nobody but NOBODY offers PTT to par with Sprint Nextel.
Right, but once Verizon buys Sprint, they'll be ready to distribute PTT handsets to Nextel customers and shut down the iden network within months, something Sprint couldn't do.
Their "open network" is designed to do two things, first, to foster innovation among people looking to bring new ideas to the cellular market, and second, to easily accommodate customers acquired in buyouts. In hindsight, it paved the way to the Alltel bu...
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From what i understand, Qchat can let you use the PTT service to send pics, vids, files, messages, and all kinds of other stuff using the PTT network. Thats supposed to be how the Qchat at Sprint will work from what I've read.
From what i understand and from what I've read online, Sprint has all kinds of "push to" features waiting to be launched on Qchat. It should be interesting to see how this all works out.
If Sprint was to get their advertising together and market this stuff. Then VZ having is would be a non-issue. But, unfortunately that hasn't happened.
Verizon has had all kinds of troubles when it comes to PTT so I don’t think that this would be a success either, however, given the fact that Sprint continues to have problems, it could help Verizon and their new PTT offering. It shall be interesting.
Truly bridging CDMA and iDEN i think will be much better than the hybrid phones. They were a good idea, but these new phones should be sooo much better. Plus getting the other manufactures involved will hopefully get Moto to improve on their offerings for Sprint as well.
Only time will tell. Hopefully Sprint can fix things so that this new VZ PTT offering will be as successful as the last time they offered it. That would be a good sign for Sprint.
But now imagine sending bigger and nicer pictures, video, songs and whatever other files that they will allow.
It's just going to expand and improve on what iDEN was capable of doing. Qchat is the next generation of iDEN if i remember properly.
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