Congratulations on things going well for you so far, hope it continues.

Once you learn the inherent usefuleness of Nextel's fast PTT, you'll be even happier with how well it all works.

If you're looking for data and text-messaging, however, you chose the wrong carrier, because Nextel is weak on data and text-messaging.

You might want to look into the NextMail add-on feature, it's an incredibly handy tool, and the texting back from your friends/coworkers PC's to your phone is ultra-quick, not at all like the slow and erratic regular phone-to-phone texting on Nextel. You can always add NextMail to try it out and then drop it without penalty any time if you don;t like it, because it is an add-on, no contract changes are involved.

I assume from your post that you came from ATT directly to Nextel?