WHAT HAPPENED?
I USED TO LOVE MY NEXTEL WITH A PASSION AND ITS FELL OFF...SERVICE WAS SKETCHY AFTER 4 YEARS OF LOYALTY I DROPED MY CHIRPER FOR A metroPCS AND A VERIZON WIRELSS...PLS GET BACK TO WHERE NEXTEL ONCE WAS...ID RUN BACK!!!
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You can say that again! From an investor’s point of view and a consumer’s point of view they are doing horrible. I used to work for Lets Talk Cellular and left right before Nextel bought our 200 and some odd chain out. Right before that went on my friend was promoted to acting district manager of New York metro area and then was sent to handle the Philly Pa area. It was a very “entrepreneurial” and “competitive” culture during these time periods. We were all about activations and then keeping our customers. Since Sprint has bought out Nextel they have treated that side of the company like it was a “Fire Sale”! They paid too much, have managed to confuse prospective customers with their branding tactics, and have more or less abandoned the...
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BINGO! Nextel was awesome...it was the thing to have, pre-merger. Sprint's arrogant and ignorant people took that and basically flushed it down the toilet. As for making CDMA the future network, I'm staying on iDEN until I get booted out. If they don't come up with a comparable product to current Nextel phones, I'm gone. To do that, they need to at least double their CDMA footprint to even be close to having coverage as good as Nextel. Sure, CDMA can roam, but if your always roaming, why not just subscribe to Verizon? Anyways, then, hopefully QChat can be tweaked and made to work as good as iDEN Direct Connect, but it's still CDMA. CDMA sucks in my opinion, from my experience with it on Verizon, Alltel, and Sprint POS (not a typo). I...
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out of curiosity, what were ur experiences w/ cdma that made u feel it sucks,
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Well, I was constantly dropping calls whereever I would go on CDMA (Verizon and Alltel both, and I know people with Sprint PCS having the same problem). CDMA calls always sounded tinny and distorted and would cut out quite often. Once the signal meter hit two bars or less, call quality totally went south. On Nextel's iDEN, it stays nice and clear even in the fringe with no bars, and it sounds more like a landline phone call.
Again, it's different in every area, but in MY area, I'm not pleased with CDMA, and I will stay on iDEN until they actually boot me off. Nextel just put up a new tower near here anyway, so now the coverage is even better.
Again, it's different in every area, but in MY area, I'm not pleased with CDMA, and I will stay on iDEN until they actually boot me off. Nextel just put up a new tower near here anyway, so now the coverage is even better.
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its good that ur using something that is reliable and working, when i was under sprint's cdma network, before it start getting good, the dropped calls were horrible and i was roaming everywhere(i didnt make calls tho, lol) and i went to cingular because most people i know are under cingular and it works well in my area(detroit), cdma is a superior technology but its a closed standard and i do not support closed standards, im the type of person that believes in open technology like linux, and other similar things and gsm is open and flexible, and thats y i moved. i wouldnt go under nextel in my area because the rf is horrible and im not being biased(i am not a fanboy) my own friends recommended me not to go under nextel because they dont get ...
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Yes, you're right about Sprint neglecting iDEN. They sort of came in, took over, and forgot about everything Nextel had going for them as a standalone company.
If I didn't have Nextel, for say if Sprint actually does phase out the iDEN network (I doubt it though), my next choice would probably be Cingular. The problem is that I tried them and they have very poor coverage here at my house, though it was great in other places. Still, I would probably choose them before any CDMA carrier. I know people that use GSM and when it does work, it works well.
I did get a notice in MyNextel (online access to my account) about them expanding iDEN coverage and capacity in many bigger cities and other areas across the country. Maybe Detroit will...
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If I didn't have Nextel, for say if Sprint actually does phase out the iDEN network (I doubt it though), my next choice would probably be Cingular. The problem is that I tried them and they have very poor coverage here at my house, though it was great in other places. Still, I would probably choose them before any CDMA carrier. I know people that use GSM and when it does work, it works well.
I did get a notice in MyNextel (online access to my account) about them expanding iDEN coverage and capacity in many bigger cities and other areas across the country. Maybe Detroit will...
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thanx for the info, i really hope they do expand IDEN coverage in my area because the cramming is very evident
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