Boost Mobile Confirms CDMA Phase Out
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Well when Sprint released Qchat phone I thought That Boost would do the same. Sprint is trying to get people to switch from NEXTEL to Sprint and use Qchat -based phones.
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htemboy78 said:
Sprint is trying to get people to switch from NEXTEL to Sprint and use Qchat -based phones.
Not anymore. Not like they were before.
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As a matter of fact. Sprint is trying to get people over to iDEN now that they decided against selling it.
Just because iDEN is old, does not mean it is broken or in need of replacement.
Look at how long CDMA has been around. Over 10 years. They just keep upgrading it. Which is what iDEN needs. I know iDEN is based on TDMA. And TDMA is limited when compaire to CDMA.
But TDMA was upgraded to GSM. I don't think iDEN is at the end. If Motorola spends money on looking into upgrading iDEN, I think it can deliver surprisingly good results.
WiDEN (Which is 2.5 G)was suppose to be a upgrade for the data side of iDEN by bringing up to the data rate to 100kbps. And then in 2005 Nextel was testing Flash-OFDM which delivered upto 2.2Mbps. ...
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Just because iDEN is old, does not mean it is broken or in need of replacement.
Look at how long CDMA has been around. Over 10 years. They just keep upgrading it. Which is what iDEN needs. I know iDEN is based on TDMA. And TDMA is limited when compaire to CDMA.
But TDMA was upgraded to GSM. I don't think iDEN is at the end. If Motorola spends money on looking into upgrading iDEN, I think it can deliver surprisingly good results.
WiDEN (Which is 2.5 G)was suppose to be a upgrade for the data side of iDEN by bringing up to the data rate to 100kbps. And then in 2005 Nextel was testing Flash-OFDM which delivered upto 2.2Mbps. ...
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Jaden10 said:
As a matter of fact. Sprint is trying to get people over to iDEN now that they decided against selling it.
If Sprint needs to raise capital and there is a serious buyer, they probably wouldn't hesitate to sell Nextel. Trying to raise capital through equity would be very difficult in the current economic times for almost any company, most less one in Sprint's condition. Imagine the shareholder dilution that would be involved with that.
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Look at how long CDMA has been around. Over 10 years. They just keep upgrading it. Which is what iDEN needs. I know iDEN is based on TDMA. And TDMA is limited when compaire to CDMA.
But TDMA was upgraded to GSM. I don't th
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I am not arguing that it would be easy to get Nextel back to it's former glory. One thing that is on their side is that they didn't shut the network down. If people find out that Sprint is trying to revitalize Nextel, I feel that they will come back. Especially the business. Business were the bread and butter of Nextel. Nextel is still known for having tough, durable and quality phones.
And being you mentioned these economic times. People aren't going to want to be tied down to a 1 or 2 year contract where they only have x amount of minutes for x amount of dollars. They are going to want the most bang for their buck.
As for TDMA, it use to be called Digital AMPS.
Sprint is pushing WiMAX especially being they dumped a TON of money into...
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And being you mentioned these economic times. People aren't going to want to be tied down to a 1 or 2 year contract where they only have x amount of minutes for x amount of dollars. They are going to want the most bang for their buck.
As for TDMA, it use to be called Digital AMPS.
Sprint is pushing WiMAX especially being they dumped a TON of money into...
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