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But still, it looks like a pretty good phone.
Sprint never really accepted Nextel (although they did gladly accept all the spectrum holdings that Nextel brought to the party) and certainly no one from Nextel ever accepted Sprint, being that Sprint was & is so inferior to the original Nextel, from the customer perspective.
Besides, there IS another forum for the original Sprint here on PhoneScoop. This forum used to be the original Nextel forum, then after Sprint took over Nextel they ren...
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Sorry, gloopey1, you are so wrong it is laughable.
(1) Nextel already was underway in preparing for conversion from iDEN to CDMA to increase network capacity for voice calls.
(2) Nextel was already in regional trials with several of their large corporate customers testing Flarion for their high-speed, high-bandwidth data network. That was YEARS before Sprint or VZ or ATT were anywhere close to trials...in fact, the other big carriers were just beginnning to THINK about high-speed data networks when NEXTEL ALREADY HAD THEIR NETWORK OPERATIONAL IN REAL-WORLD TRIALS. BTW, the current WiMax technology is a close relative to the Flarion t...
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...Until it all went underwater.
That is well put. Nextel did have its faults & weaknesses, but overall it was operationally excellent.
Nextel generally hit all of their network upgrade & hardware release goals on-time or early, compared to Sprint, which if it ever hits its goals it is months or years late, and generally making excuses.
Nextel was FAR more efficient operationally than any of the other US wireless providers, as proven by their ARPE (average revenue per employee) being almost DOUBLE what the original Sprint had. By the measure or ARPE, Nextel was far more efficient than even the mighty Verizon.
The original Nextel consistently was at the top or tied f...
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cellphonesaretools said:...
RE: "...Nextel would have ceased to exist within just a few years--due to their overloaded network."
Sorry, gloopey1, you are so wrong it is laughable.
(1) Nextel already was underway in preparing for conversion from iDEN to CDMA to increase network capacity for voice calls.
BUT, WHAT NEXTEL DID INSTEAD WAS SELL THEIR COMPANY TO SPRINT.
(2) Nextel was already in regional trials with several of their large corporate customers testing Flarion for their high-speed, high-bandwidth data network. That was YEARS before Sprint or VZ or ATT were anywhere close to trials...in fact, the other big carriers were just beginning to THINK about high-speed data networks when NEXTEL ALREADY HAD T
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To correct your misattributions & twisting of earlier posts: What I have described as "teeny bopper" is the mad desire for ever-glitzier handsets (which a lot of people absolutely must replace every six months or they'll just die) on which they basically just watch TV or listen to music.
Mobile entertainment is a questionable use of a limited resource such as our RF bandwidth. Legitimate communication between individuals, productive business use, commerce and/or emergency communications are proper uses of the limited RF bandwidth we hav...
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