Sprint Plans Massive Base Station Upgrade, Phase-Out of iDEN
2013 for iDEN phase out.
I thought they would begin around late 2011 early 2012. I hate to see Nextel go away, I loved it when I had it.
I already jumped ship because I moved into an area where Sprint has limited coverage. I have to say, I love using a GSM carrier, I can do a lot with it.
Goodbye Nextel, your PTT was amazing, hate to see you go away. R.I.P. iDEN, you were a great technology.
I already jumped ship because I moved into an area where Sprint has limited coverage. I have to say, I love using a GSM carrier, I can do a lot with it.
Goodbye Nextel, your PTT was amazing, hate to see you go away. R.I.P. iDEN, you were a great technology.
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Cellular Phone said:
R.I.P. iDEN, you were a great technology.
For PTT, yes. For any other service, absolutely not.
AJ
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well said, AJ.
Although I'd say it did pretty well, for a 1G technology...
I live in Lancaster County, PA, and I bet we will have LOTS of angry customers in 2013 - iDen still has a huge, active customer base here!
Although I'd say it did pretty well, for a 1G technology...
I live in Lancaster County, PA, and I bet we will have LOTS of angry customers in 2013 - iDen still has a huge, active customer base here!
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I live in Wilmington, DE.. I guess all the Amish there in Lancaster use PTT? lol
Love your Outlets!
Love your Outlets!
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Actually, they DO use Nextel Direct Connect! Crazy loophole, their barns can have electricity, and the rules don't forbid cell phones, only house phones. So you can be in the middle of farm country, and still hear that infamous "Chirp" !!
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Yes. Nextel was so great that you no longer use the service. Goodbye Nextel and good riddance. Sprint's greatest blunder ever.
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Yes. Nextel was so great that you no longer use the service. Goodbye Nextel and good riddance. Gary Forsee's greatest blunder ever.
Fixed.
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Hmm... Not for nothing, but you can expect to see Sprint bleeding several million more customers leading into 2013... iDEN via both Nextel and Boost are huge on the whole southern border of the US, and while its not a great technology, its a dramatically cheaper way to keep in touch INSTANTLY and with no minute limits with family in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and Chile... Not to mention the low rates to the brazilian PTT services. As our latino population has increased in the US, so has their need to keep in touch with loved ones back home (particularly for those who dont have the luxury of citizenship [Boost]) Sprint even still owns 14% of Nextel Holdings (NOL), the company providing iDEN in all of these countries, so it seems more ...
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Are you seriously arguing that Sprint should continue supporting antiquated iDEN to avoid the risk of losing some marginally profitable pre paid illegal alien subscribers? Even if Sprint is interested in retaining that demographic, why do you automatically assume that, in the absence of iDEN PTT, those subs will churn? When iDEN PTT is effectively dead, where else will they go? Will they simply discontinue wireless service altogether?
AJ
AJ
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Good riddance. Sprint needs to embrace more PAYING customers. How did iden go from having loyal, high ARPU subscribers with Nextel to this anyway?
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because towards the end there, Nextel was practically paying customers to have their service! Crazy plans, with 47,000 minutes and unlimited direct connect, for like $0.12 a month.
Ok, obviously I am exaggerating - but Sprint chose to let those customers keep those plans, as long as they stayed with a Nextel phone.
From a customer standpoint, that's a big plus - Verizon made my little brother change his plan with the quickness when they bought out his service provider.
It will be interesting to see what Sprint does with this. Will it be like the analog phase-out??
Ok, obviously I am exaggerating - but Sprint chose to let those customers keep those plans, as long as they stayed with a Nextel phone.
From a customer standpoint, that's a big plus - Verizon made my little brother change his plan with the quickness when they bought out his service provider.
It will be interesting to see what Sprint does with this. Will it be like the analog phase-out??
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" its a dramatically cheaper way to keep in touch INSTANTLY and with no minute limits with family in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and Chile... Not to mention the low rates to the brazilian PTT services."
So getting rid of cheap PTT with no minute limits is a BAD thing for a business trying to make money? I see...
So getting rid of cheap PTT with no minute limits is a BAD thing for a business trying to make money? I see...
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