Push To Talk
I heard this service was being re-worked and they were going to re-launch with new phones, but I haven't heard anything since and none of the reps seems to know anything about it....
Is there anyone who knows what's going on with this service???
usually on the ev-do network it will be faster then that had before, so you are supposed to have lower latencies with the push to talk solution, however, that might not be a given.
i dont think verizon cares too much about push to talk becuase they know they will lose again to sprint as well as to nextel..
i belive they might launch it becuase when sprint and nextel join forces they will be using this technology called qchat, which will be rolled over the ev-do rev a network. but this technology is only used (qchat) by nextel becuase they own the rights. it will be around 1.5 seconds bu...
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i saw on phonescoop there was a phone that was push to talk coming out in feb, you can check if you want to...
i also know when you put a push to talk solution over the DO network it should improve latency, however, know one knows. the only poeple know are nextel, motorola, and qualcomm. (its called qchat, which verizon cant touch)
so who knows. then again i think verizon should focus on other things besides for push to talk..
Why? Because you're a Nextel groupie? PTT is lucrative for ALL carriers...period. Keep your uninformed posts to yourself.
so who knows. then again i think verizon should focus on other things besides for push to talk..
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yes, i have actually!
"Where did you get the info that Q Chat is only for nextel??? "
it looks like you didnt go to their website becuase it mentions it there as well as on nextel's web site..
here are the links...
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=63347&p= ... »
some snipits : "These agreements, which grant Nextel certain exclusive license rights in North America and several other international markets, are expected to enable Direct Connect push-to-talk functionality over wireless CDMA networks using a voice-over-IP architecture. The architecture will be designed to enable subscribers worldwide to talk with each oth...
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http://mrtmag.com/news/radio_nextel_tests_qualcomms/ »
snip it:
"Nextel, which was the first carrier to introduce the P2T feature, has exclusive rights to use the QChat system it is testing for an unspecified period of time. Nextel did not indicate when it might introduce a handset that features QChat"
http://mrtmag.com/mag/radio_pushtotalk/ »
snipit :
"Nextel itself has purchased exclusive rights to a CDMA 1X VoIP solution from Qualcomm, known as Qchat, even though the company has yet to announce any intentions to migrate to a CDMA-based 3G technology. Nextel reports that it is working hard to get Qchat to reach call set-up delays of less than three seconds, according to a recent research repo...
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I was wrong, I didn't spend half my life obsessed with Q-Chat. I just recently heard that in Florida an entire Sheriff's department moved 500 lines from nextel To Verizon because Nextel has such horrible back up to their towers, no surprise since they are more worried about Nascar.
You are a seriously naive when it comes to what other carriers are doing, what will Nextel/Sprint do while they wait for EV DO Rev A????
As far as Churn goes I do believe that Verizon led the industry last year for lowest churn even though they had a sub par PTT. Verizon is supposed to be launching their new PTT soon, hope your Precious doesn't loose any more custo...
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with my testing/using ev-do? well i am using a college network and when i am at home i use my comcast at 3mb/s. i dont need mobile high speed data as of yet, but when sprint comes out with theirs i will way my options. my nextel phones are fine with data speeds, (they arent great) but i can do the things that i need to do. but when nextel/sprint comes out with rev A i will def. look into that.
fyi, verizon and sprint didnt do well with their push to talk now, there is no way that verizon and other carriers will do well and take push to talk customers away from nextel. it wont happen. (especially...
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"You are forgeting one thing with PTT, minor speed and latency issues will be overlooked by customers wanting out of the Spider Web networks that Sprint PCS and Nextel provide. "
well so far nextel hasnt been affected by the push to talk offerings that verizon, sprint, and alltel has launched, and i belive that wont change.
" will check with my Friend and see what Sheriff department was involved on the switch, he advised that Nextel had no back up power in much of the network and that Verizon donated th...
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widen isnt that fast about 80-100kb/s but us nextel users really dont care about high speed growht per quarter are consistant (and very good with churn and arpu and mainting for the sub growth between boost and its regular core business) shows that people that nextel sign up with (mainly business, gov, public sector and youth mobile) dont care too much about highier speed data. nextel could also roll out flarion, but we will see.You do understand that without PTT Nextel is dead in the water, right? Do you honestly believe people obtain Nextel service for its superior cellular service? Luckily Sprint will solve their problem for them. Nextel users don't care about high speed data...you just keep convincing yourself...
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southwestcomm said:I hope I didn't offend you in any manner. Your posts are some of the few that I actually learn anything from. But do you truly think Nextel would still be a viable product if they didn't offer PTT? Think of how many business accounts rely on PTT.
Without PTT Nextel is dead. Please. Find one other carrier that offers GPS services, wireless credit card, wireless barcode scanning, multiple Blackberry options. Nextel new that PTT would be rivaled one day and has moved forward with solutions no other carrier can touch.
muchdrama said:southwestcomm said:I hope I didn't offend you in any manner. Your posts are some of the few that I actually learn anything from. But do you truly think Nextel would still be a viable product if they didn't offer PTT? Think of how many business accounts rely on PTT.
Without PTT Nextel is dead. Please. Find one other carrier that offers GPS services, wireless credit card, wireless barcode scanning, multiple Blackberry options. Nextel new that PTT would be rivaled one day and has moved forward with solutions no other carrier can touch.
It might not be a fatal blow, but it would certainly be close--if Nextel didn't have the PTT they would have a hard time sta...
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Aleq said:...muchdrama said:southwestcomm said:I hope I didn't offend you in any manner. Your posts are some of the few that I actually learn anything from. But do you truly think Nextel would still be a viable product if they didn't offer PTT? Think of how many business accounts rely on PTT.
Without PTT Nextel is dead. Please. Find one other carrier that offers GPS services, wireless credit card, wireless barcode scanning, multiple Blackberry options. Nextel new that PTT would be rivaled one day and has moved forward with solutions no other carrier can touch.
It might not be a fatal blow, but it would certainly be close--if Nextel didn't have the PTT
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Soon Cingular and Verizon will steal away those wanting a full service and not a walkie talkie service.
I wish we could see pictures of users in this thread, can you imagine Nextel18 in his Army Fatigues playing walkie talkie with his two or three friends?
Are you so taken with Nextel that you don't understand it's only a matter of time before some carrier demonstrates a PTT solution that rivals Nextel's or possibly even bests it? I've never seen a person so utterly devoted to an inanimate thing. Go outside once in a while...feel the grass beneath your feet.
2. the other carriers will have push to talk? wow. such a huuuge deal. look at verizon, sprint, and alltel who launched theirs. how did they do? they did SO WELL, THAT THEY DONT EVEN ADVERTISE ANYMORE!! lol hahaha. so cingular/att and tmobile will launch theirs? wow. so what? they wont do any damage against nextel anyway.
He LOVES copying and pasting stuff from websites. Go on, egg him on some more.
so there ya go. please do research before addressing me and questioning my credibility, becuase i use information from web sites and things of that nature. thanks!
some links are...
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=427 »
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=463 »
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=470 »
those all said product is still testing i belive.
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=527 » it says Planned Availability: February 2005.
hope that all helps 🙂
Yeah I saw those, they don't have cameras? They just have picture ID. I have lg vx6000 and I'm happy with verizon's service I just wish they had more toys on the phones!
Sprint has great technology I think. One phone has a TV and video recording, pictures, speaker, and push to talk! That's nice.
Come on Verizon.... 😁
well sprint and verizon has pretty close to the same latency, allthough, i have been told that sprint's latency and service might be slightly better then verizon.
you saw that sprint was very confident in their service by offering camera phones, video phones and things of that nature.
but they didnt do well against nextel, which suprised everyone, since cdma is a better network then iden. well nextel, proved them wrong. (but thats besides the point)
with verizon wireless, if ...
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verizon's plans are pretty good. all plans with all carriers seem to be the same to me. average plan for 500 minutes or so is around 45-50/month.
i got the vx 6000 when it first came out and i loved it. still do. i text message a lot and i like how it works. although nokia has the best text messagings ever b/c when you make up your own work or a swear word, it remembers it 🙂 haha.
one bad thing about the phone is it only holds 20 pictures. but my service is great with verizon. I have family and friends with sprint, nextel, t mobil, and at&t and around h...
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haha thats true. no problem that you dont understand or know about the technology. you just want it no matter what?! lol.
"verizon's plans are pretty good. all plans with all carriers seem to be the same to me. average plan for 500 minutes or so is around 45-50/month. "
not bad. i dont think that is quite good though.. (check out nextel and sprint becuase i belive they have released new plans and some new prices. i really like the national 1000 and its free incoming plans, although, i dont have neither. i have the all unlmited plan, but thats besides the p...
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anyhow, my brother had nextel, he liked it in the beginning, when he traveled and all, but when he settled down he got verizon and compared the 2 and said verizon is better for the average man. If you travel, i can see why you like nextel. I don't travel, wish i did- but i am goin...
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aww. thanks..
" I have america's choice plan for $39.99 it has 400 minutes, no roaming charges, nights and weekends, all that jazz. majority of the people i know have verizon so the unlimited in network calling is what i use most. "
thats not too too bad. i am hearing the IN network is having some problems becuase there is actually a lawsuit going on that system as well as bluetooth. i dont like it becuase it says in tiny tiny letters.. such as this.. (not from the site just making it up) if you are off the network or roaming you pay 60-70 cents per min and it probably will have some little words about the restrictions with the IN netowork.. ie d...
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you guys are too much. Hilarious but too much.
To nextel18- I was in vegas last february as well with the same phone the same plan and everything and my bill was just fine. I think you are basing your judgements too much on when you were "10" and when you had a verizon phone ages ago. I'm not trying to be mean but I'm simply basing my opinon. Technology grows everyday, you can't just hate a company b/c in the beginning they were ****ty. Either way, everyone goes for whatever phone and company they want. I'm not saying nextel is junk and verizon is great but I know everyone that has verizon so I the in network calling is great. I never get charged over or anything. My bills are good. Just as you like direct connect and how its fa...
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this is wrong. nextel phones worked the whole time when i was in nyc on that day and after when i was back in mass. why do you think the safety personel all used nextel phones? again nextel cares about safety personel more then regular consumers becuase of that priority service.
"need to stop trying to pick this girl up and stop making up crap."
yes daddy. and you have to be rude by butting yourself in the middle of someone's convo. very rude daddy.
" you are lonely you might want to get on an internet chat room for lonely walkie talkie addicts that l...
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How about posting some links about Nextel being sued? I've sold Nextel for 4 years now and have never heard such things.
Sept 3, 2003 - (RCRNews.com) WASHINGTON - Nextel Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTL) and Sprint PCS. (NYSE: PCS) are facing unprecedented billing litigation, a legal challenge Nextel brought to the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing last month.
Nextel is a defendant in seven class action billing lawsuits. The cases are pending in federal courts in California, Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
In July, Nextel and Sprint PCS settled a lawsuit with the Missouri attorney general on how they break out taxes and fees related to federal mandates on consumer bills. But the carriers' problems did not end there.
Consumers also have sued Sprint PCS for alleged billing mi...
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so try to get some links, maybe an email or something, then i might belive you in something that you say. so far i dont.
again, please post a link or an email or maybe a clip from the polk county newspaper.
good luck. (again i dont have to prove you wrong, you have to prove that YOU ARE RIGHT!)
again, if you cant prove it then just admit it, if you can, then just prove it and thats it. (no reason to argue back and forth, just prove it and your done, thats all i ask)
nextel18 said:It's true genius. I read about it in the Gainesville Sun while at Gator Growl last November. Geeze.
any links? i asked you to provide links or an email or anything agreeing with your statement. if you cant, then your statement isnt true, just like you were proven wrong about qchat.
so try to get some links, maybe an email or something, then i might belive you in something that you say. so far i dont.