nextel is still a great service for people that only want to talk or d.c other people, it wasnt made for texting or data or roaming, if you want that stuff switch to a sprint phone that was there main focas on , remember back when nextel was bought, there wasnt alot of texting or data tech out there, i think sprint did a amazing job already with nextel makeing texting and data availbe on the nextel phones, and still at the same time, impoved sprint phones to the lastest a greastest tech avaiable