readylink to direct connect? yet?
in other words...i have a 8300, and my girlfriend is on nextel...as a matter of fact, her entire family has nextel, and she loves using the radio way more than she does the phone...anyway, my question is...
how much longer should i wait before adding readylink to my line? so that i can radio her...
last year i heard somewhere that sometime this year sprint is supposed to be introducing some new phones that will use cdma (on the sprint network) for voice and data (evdo) and iden/tdma (on the nextel network) for ptt. this will make these phones an industry first - single handsets that operate on two networks simultaneously.
anyway, do i have to wait, and then replace my phone with one of those new ones? 'cuz if so, i would consider switching to nextel so that i can chirp with her sooner...
but switching to nextel would be hard for me, too...maybe i should consider boost...
as far as RL and DC working together, your phone will never do it. i had a small bird tell me that when the 4g network releases, sprint will be working on a gateway system that will allow the 'high performance ready-link' to communicate with the nextel direct connect.
but switching to nextel would be hard for me, too...maybe i should consider boost...
YES YOU SHOULD, since noboy else but Boost users call Direct Connect "chip".
Argonnj said:
will i ever be able to chirp with her from my sprint phone?
but switching to nextel would be hard for me, too...maybe i should consider boost...
YES YOU SHOULD, since noboy else but Boost users call Direct Connect "chip".
I pretty sure Boost users don't call it "chip" either. 🤣
Eventually (i.e. 200😎 Nextel-Sprint will introduce the Q-Chat technology that will allow regular Sprint users to have Nextel-like PTT on the Sprint network, and will also allow inter-PTT between the existing Nextel (iDEN) network and Sprint's upcoming Q-Chat system.
http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=13880 »