Nextel 18
Two: Sprint Nextel is already experimenting with CDMA devices that can Direct Connect to iDEN devies.
Strategies with IDEN would either have push to talk centric users or sell it to DOD. Either or will be neither confirmed nor denied by me.
The hybrid phones will be another option like Qchat. If Qchat were successful then perhaps the dual modes would be no more.
Anyone have any decent info on the actual migration rate of iDEN sub's to Sprint's CDMA side?
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"Analyst Gray Powell, in a client note, upgraded the stock to "Outperform" from "Market Perform." The analyst expects the fourth-quarter will show continued subscriber losses.
However, we now believe Sprint is within six months of reaching a sustainable turnaround in subscriber growth and that sentiment cannot go much lower," wrote Powe...
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rkr said:
No more powersource. Sprint is making a new walkie-talkie called hpptt. hpptt will be able to communicate with regular direct connect. hpptt will do better than ready link.
I still say they either need to do away with Ready Link, or at least make the new PTT system backward compatible with it as well.
If the backward compatibility issue isn't feasible, then I say allow current RL customers upgrade to Nextel, or shut off the service, and give them something else in return.