i belive it wont hit 1.5 but it will be def. less then it has been before, which was terrible...

i saw on phonescoop there was a phone that was push to talk coming out in feb, you can check if you want to...

i also know when you put a push to talk solution over the DO network it should improve latency, however, know one knows. the only poeple know are nextel, motorola, and qualcomm. (its called qchat, which verizon cant touch)

so who knows. then again i think verizon should focus on other things besides for push to talk..

so who knows. then again i think verizon should focus on other things besides for push to talk..

Why? Because you're a Nextel groupie? PTT is lucrative for ALL carriers...period. Keep your uninformed posts to yourself.

This what I heard PTT talk is going to be rerolled out in the 2nd quarter or sooner. I have PTT now and it works good there is a slight delay but that is going to get better. Also if you happend to have the V60p you might need to have the software checked on the phone to make it operate better. Mine is new but software is old and you would need to take it to a corperate store to have them update it for free. Verizon is going to be bigger than Nextel and sprint for coverage are just to let you know. Look at the Verizon map for america's choice see all the red. That is what they are working on for PTT for coverage area as well. Now look at Sprint/Nextel they have spider web coverage. I agree Nextel was the best for the PTT but the coverage a...
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Verizon's PTT does not work everywhre voice is offered. You must have 1X coverage for PTT to work.

What Nextel18 is afraid of is that Nextel won't be special anymore! Soon all of the GSM carriers will have PTT as will the CDMA carriers and then his beloved nextel/sprint won't be so special. Is Sprint going to put back up power in the Nextel cell sites? I heard that verizon launched their new PTT service when the storms hit Florida and there are already entire sheriff departments going to Verizon so they can play Walkie Talkie when the power goes down while Nextel users scratch their heads. 🤣

"Have you actually been to the Qualcom web site and viewed this? "

yes, i have actually!

"Where did you get the info that Q Chat is only for nextel??? "

it looks like you didnt go to their website becuase it mentions it there as well as on nextel's web site..

here are the links...

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=63347&p= ... »

some snipits : "These agreements, which grant Nextel certain exclusive license rights in North America and several other international markets, are expected to enable Direct Connect push-to-talk functionality over wireless CDMA networks using a voice-over-IP architecture. The architecture will be designed to enable subscribers worldwide to talk with each oth...
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What part of Certain license rights don't you get Nextel18??? I do not see that it will give sole exclusive rights. Q Chat was being developed before Nextel agreed to assist and sign on. Do you have a statement that says Nextel will be the only provider to use Q Chat in the U.S.???? Can you please provide a detail of the Certain License agreements here??? Better let you go, I think I hear jeff Gordan beeping you.

sure.. i will find some links..

http://mrtmag.com/news/radio_nextel_tests_qualcomms/ »

snip it:

"Nextel, which was the first carrier to introduce the P2T feature, has exclusive rights to use the QChat system it is testing for an unspecified period of time. Nextel did not indicate when it might introduce a handset that features QChat"

http://mrtmag.com/mag/radio_pushtotalk/ »

snipit :

"Nextel itself has purchased exclusive rights to a CDMA 1X VoIP solution from Qualcomm, known as Qchat, even though the company has yet to announce any intentions to migrate to a CDMA-based 3G technology. Nextel reports that it is working hard to get Qchat to reach call set-up delays of less than three seconds, according to a recent research repo...
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So you think that Nextel will hoard this to themselves and not want to make money on the license agreement? this is still 18 months away?? What happens if someone else comes out with a superior technology to Q Chat? What I really can't understand is why you are so fixed on walkie talkie service, every major carrier in the U.S. will have a PTT product soon and if everyone but Nextel Sprint team up and develop a way to oprate carrier to carrier then Nextel/Sprint is left to themselves aren't they??? do you have any other passions besides Q Chat??? Nextel cellular service is horrible here in Chicago and Sprint isn'tmuch better, will everyone base their cell buying descision on Q Chat??? Time to start putting your eggs in more than one ba...
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"So you think that Nextel will hoard this to themselves and not want to make money on the license agreement? this is still 18 months away?? What happens if someone else comes out with a superior technology to Q Chat? What I really can't understand is why you are so fixed on walkie talkie service, every major carrier in the U.S. will have a PTT product soon and if everyone but Nextel Sprint team up and develop a way to oprate carrier to carrier then Nextel/Sprint is left to themselves aren't they??? do you have any other passions besides Q Chat??? Nextel cellular service is horrible here in Chicago and Sprint isn'tmuch better, will everyone base their cell buying descision on Q Chat??? Time to start putting your eggs in more than one basket."...
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I am actually using EVDO as right now, when will Nextel have actual data services?

I was wrong, I didn't spend half my life obsessed with Q-Chat. I just recently heard that in Florida an entire Sheriff's department moved 500 lines from nextel To Verizon because Nextel has such horrible back up to their towers, no surprise since they are more worried about Nascar.

You are a seriously naive when it comes to what other carriers are doing, what will Nextel/Sprint do while they wait for EV DO Rev A????

As far as Churn goes I do believe that Verizon led the industry last year for lowest churn even though they had a sub par PTT. Verizon is supposed to be launching their new PTT soon, hope your Precious doesn't loose any more custo...
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about nextel/sprint merger go to the web site so you can see what their migration technology period is. it will answer all of your questions.

with my testing/using ev-do? well i am using a college network and when i am at home i use my comcast at 3mb/s. i dont need mobile high speed data as of yet, but when sprint comes out with theirs i will way my options. my nextel phones are fine with data speeds, (they arent great) but i can do the things that i need to do. but when nextel/sprint comes out with rev A i will def. look into that.

fyi, verizon and sprint didnt do well with their push to talk now, there is no way that verizon and other carriers will do well and take push to talk customers away from nextel. it wont happen. (especially...
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Flarion has tested faster but will Nextel ever roll it out??? You are forgeting one thing with PTT, minor speed and latency issues will be overlooked by customers wanting out of the Spider Web networks that Sprint PCS and Nextel provide. I will check with my Friend and see what Sheriff department was involved on the switch, he advised that Nextel had no back up power in much of the network and that Verizon donated thousands of phones so that public safety groups and response teams had service while Nextel was down. Ouch, but hey I heard that the Nextel Cup race went on as scheduled!!!

not sure about the flarion situation, again we will see what nextel will do. it basically depends on the whole nextel/sprint merger. barry west in the teleconf has been mentioning ev-do REV A more than flarion. so again we shall see

"You are forgeting one thing with PTT, minor speed and latency issues will be overlooked by customers wanting out of the Spider Web networks that Sprint PCS and Nextel provide. "

well so far nextel hasnt been affected by the push to talk offerings that verizon, sprint, and alltel has launched, and i belive that wont change.

" will check with my Friend and see what Sheriff department was involved on the switch, he advised that Nextel had no back up power in much of the network and that Verizon donated th...
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widen isnt that fast about 80-100kb/s but us nextel users really dont care about high speed growht per quarter are consistant (and very good with churn and arpu and mainting for the sub growth between boost and its regular core business) shows that people that nextel sign up with (mainly business, gov, public sector and youth mobile) dont care too much about highier speed data. nextel could also roll out flarion, but we will see.

You do understand that without PTT Nextel is dead in the water, right? Do you honestly believe people obtain Nextel service for its superior cellular service? Luckily Sprint will solve their problem for them. Nextel users don't care about high speed data...you just keep convincing yourself...
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Without PTT Nextel is dead. Please. Find one other carrier that offers GPS services, wireless credit card, wireless barcode scanning, multiple Blackberry options. Nextel new that PTT would be rivaled one day and has moved forward with solutions no other carrier can touch.

exactly!!!!

southwestcomm said:
Without PTT Nextel is dead. Please. Find one other carrier that offers GPS services, wireless credit card, wireless barcode scanning, multiple Blackberry options. Nextel new that PTT would be rivaled one day and has moved forward with solutions no other carrier can touch.

I hope I didn't offend you in any manner. Your posts are some of the few that I actually learn anything from. But do you truly think Nextel would still be a viable product if they didn't offer PTT? Think of how many business accounts rely on PTT.

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southwestcomm said:
Without PTT Nextel is dead. Please. Find one other carrier that offers GPS services, wireless credit card, wireless barcode scanning, multiple Blackberry options. Nextel new that PTT would be rivaled one day and has moved forward with solutions no other carrier can touch.

I hope I didn't offend you in any manner. Your posts are some of the few that I actually learn anything from. But do you truly think Nextel would still be a viable product if they didn't offer PTT? Think of how many business accounts rely on PTT.

It might not be a fatal blow, but it would certainly be close--if Nextel didn't have the PTT they would have a hard time sta...
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Aleq said:

muchdrama said:

southwestcomm said:
Without PTT Nextel is dead. Please. Find one other carrier that offers GPS services, wireless credit card, wireless barcode scanning, multiple Blackberry options. Nextel new that PTT would be rivaled one day and has moved forward with solutions no other carrier can touch.

I hope I didn't offend you in any manner. Your posts are some of the few that I actually learn anything from. But do you truly think Nextel would still be a viable product if they didn't offer PTT? Think of how many business accounts rely on PTT.

It might not be a fatal blow, but it would certainly be close--if Nextel didn't have the PTT

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You didn't. Nextel would be very viable with PTT. Reiterating my last post Nextel is the only carrier that offers true solutions - GPS, wireless credit card, barcode, Blackberry, etc. More of my sales are due to these solutions than the PTT.

It is amazing that these so called Business customers don't care about Data, hahaha

Soon Cingular and Verizon will steal away those wanting a full service and not a walkie talkie service.

I wish we could see pictures of users in this thread, can you imagine Nextel18 in his Army Fatigues playing walkie talkie with his two or three friends?

2. the other carriers will have push to talk? wow. such a huuuge deal. look at verizon, sprint, and alltel who launched theirs. how did they do? they did SO WELL, THAT THEY DONT EVEN ADVERTISE ANYMORE!! lol hahaha. so cingular/att and tmobile will launch theirs? wow. so what? they wont do any damage against nextel anyway.

Are you so taken with Nextel that you don't understand it's only a matter of time before some carrier demonstrates a PTT solution that rivals Nextel's or possibly even bests it? I've never seen a person so utterly devoted to an inanimate thing. Go outside once in a while...feel the grass beneath your feet.

He is like Dr. Evil and is still behind the times. Check out his deperate attempt to hit on Cell_Girl in this thread, I blasted him for it and she seemed to agree that this isn't a dating forum. hahaha 🤣 👿

so there ya go. please do research before addressing me and questioning my credibility, becuase i use information from web sites and things of that nature. thanks!

He LOVES copying and pasting stuff from websites. Go on, egg him on some more.

Hey, go to the replies for Cell_Girl and you will see Nextel18 trying to hit on her. It looks like she shut the door on his skills. Does anyone have any singled links for walkie talkie boys?

yea i checked on phonescoop this is what i saw....

some links are...

https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=427 »

https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=463 »

https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=470 »

those all said product is still testing i belive.

https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=527 » it says Planned Availability: February 2005.

hope that all helps 🙂

Thanks.
Yeah I saw those, they don't have cameras? They just have picture ID. I have lg vx6000 and I'm happy with verizon's service I just wish they had more toys on the phones!
Sprint has great technology I think. One phone has a TV and video recording, pictures, speaker, and push to talk! That's nice.
Come on Verizon.... 😁

yea. thats true. when i looked closer, i didnt find any cameras on any of them. i dont think verizon has much faith in their push to talk feature especially since they didnt, earlier, roll out a camera phone to compliment their other push to talk phone.

well sprint and verizon has pretty close to the same latency, allthough, i have been told that sprint's latency and service might be slightly better then verizon.

you saw that sprint was very confident in their service by offering camera phones, video phones and things of that nature.


but they didnt do well against nextel, which suprised everyone, since cdma is a better network then iden. well nextel, proved them wrong. (but thats besides the point)

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I have no idea about CDMA GSM ev-do qchat or all that stuff you listed. I just go for what works in my area (michigan, usa) and what has good plans and what phone looks nice.

verizon's plans are pretty good. all plans with all carriers seem to be the same to me. average plan for 500 minutes or so is around 45-50/month.

i got the vx 6000 when it first came out and i loved it. still do. i text message a lot and i like how it works. although nokia has the best text messagings ever b/c when you make up your own work or a swear word, it remembers it 🙂 haha.

one bad thing about the phone is it only holds 20 pictures. but my service is great with verizon. I have family and friends with sprint, nextel, t mobil, and at&t and around h...
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"I have no idea about CDMA GSM ev-do qchat or all that stuff you listed. I just go for what works in my area (michigan, usa) and what has good plans and what phone looks nice. "


haha thats true. no problem that you dont understand or know about the technology. you just want it no matter what?! lol.

"verizon's plans are pretty good. all plans with all carriers seem to be the same to me. average plan for 500 minutes or so is around 45-50/month. "

not bad. i dont think that is quite good though.. (check out nextel and sprint becuase i belive they have released new plans and some new prices. i really like the national 1000 and its free incoming plans, although, i dont have neither. i have the all unlmited plan, but thats besides the p...
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Yeah- I'm sick and I should be in bed but... to answer a couple of your questions. I have america's choice plan for $39.99 it has 400 minutes, no roaming charges, nights and weekends, all that jazz. majority of the people i know have verizon so the unlimited in network calling is what i use most. But i don't talk too much on the phone. working 2 jobs on top of school, its more or less a necessity these days, just to have.... i still want my features though! haha.
anyhow, my brother had nextel, he liked it in the beginning, when he traveled and all, but when he settled down he got verizon and compared the 2 and said verizon is better for the average man. If you travel, i can see why you like nextel. I don't travel, wish i did- but i am goin...
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"Yeah- I'm sick and I should be in bed but... to answer a couple of your questions."

aww. thanks..


" I have america's choice plan for $39.99 it has 400 minutes, no roaming charges, nights and weekends, all that jazz. majority of the people i know have verizon so the unlimited in network calling is what i use most. "

thats not too too bad. i am hearing the IN network is having some problems becuase there is actually a lawsuit going on that system as well as bluetooth. i dont like it becuase it says in tiny tiny letters.. such as this.. (not from the site just making it up) if you are off the network or roaming you pay 60-70 cents per min and it probably will have some little words about the restrictions with the IN netowork.. ie d...
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Can you answer a simple question without preaching crap that this poor girl doesn't evencare about???? I was in Vegas back in September and the Verizon network worked great and I didn't have roaming charges. Do you really think she is worried about a VoCoder for nextel when she is actually looking for amore feature rich phone?? Your friends had to use your phone in NYC??? Back when 9/11 happened I remember hearing that Verizon had the lowest blockage rate and that Nextel was down throughout much of NYC. Where do you get this crap??? If you follow wirelessweek you will also notice that Nextel has been sued plenty of times and been accused of deceptive advertising and pricing just like every other Cell company in this country. You need ...
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Whoa--
you guys are too much. Hilarious but too much.
To nextel18- I was in vegas last february as well with the same phone the same plan and everything and my bill was just fine. I think you are basing your judgements too much on when you were "10" and when you had a verizon phone ages ago. I'm not trying to be mean but I'm simply basing my opinon. Technology grows everyday, you can't just hate a company b/c in the beginning they were ****ty. Either way, everyone goes for whatever phone and company they want. I'm not saying nextel is junk and verizon is great but I know everyone that has verizon so I the in network calling is great. I never get charged over or anything. My bills are good. Just as you like direct connect and how its fa...
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"To nextel18- I was in vegas last february as well with the same phone the same plan and everything and my bill was just fine. I think you are basing your judgements too much on when you were "10" and when you had a verizon phone ages ago. I'm not trying to be mean but I'm simply basing my opinon. Technology grows everyday, you can't just hate a company b/c in the beginning they were ****ty. Either way, everyone goes for whatever phone and company they want. I'm not saying nextel is junk and verizon is great but I know everyone that has verizon so I the in network calling is great. I never get charged over or anything. My bills are good. Just as you like direct connect and how its fast and simple- I like text messaging. You ask what you need...
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"Your friends had to use your phone in NYC??? Back when 9/11 happened I remember hearing that Verizon had the lowest blockage rate and that Nextel was down throughout much of NYC."

this is wrong. nextel phones worked the whole time when i was in nyc on that day and after when i was back in mass. why do you think the safety personel all used nextel phones? again nextel cares about safety personel more then regular consumers becuase of that priority service.

"need to stop trying to pick this girl up and stop making up crap."

yes daddy. and you have to be rude by butting yourself in the middle of someone's convo. very rude daddy.

" you are lonely you might want to get on an internet chat room for lonely walkie talkie addicts that l...
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I don't know where you got that info about post 911. Nextel was one of the only working systems due to the fact their PTT does not depend on a PSTN. All the other providers were crippled due to the fact that the LEC was overloaded.
How about posting some links about Nextel being sued? I've sold Nextel for 4 years now and have never heard such things.

exactly!!!

Here is something to chew on.

Sept 3, 2003 - (RCRNews.com) WASHINGTON - Nextel Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTL) and Sprint PCS. (NYSE: PCS) are facing unprecedented billing litigation, a legal challenge Nextel brought to the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission in a filing last month.

Nextel is a defendant in seven class action billing lawsuits. The cases are pending in federal courts in California, Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

In July, Nextel and Sprint PCS settled a lawsuit with the Missouri attorney general on how they break out taxes and fees related to federal mandates on consumer bills. But the carriers' problems did not end there.

Consumers also have sued Sprint PCS for alleged billing mi...
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These sorts of law suits are carrier-wide not Nextel or Sprint specific. Verizon was sued in CA for the same reason. I received a credit for billing issues on my wife's AT&T phone.

You crack me up, you said in the last four years you never heard of Nextel being sued and now this bogus answer? You also said earlier in this thread that on 9/11 Nextel PTT was working fine, that is great if the walkie talkie works but how did Nextel customers reach people on landline phones???? Nextel doesn't even have back up power to much of the towers it owns because they are cheapskates!!

any word on the firefighters or police station moving from nextel to verizon? (as you claim)

Polk County Florida, 500 lines.

any links? i asked you to provide links or an email or anything agreeing with your statement. if you cant, then your statement isnt true, just like you were proven wrong about qchat.

so try to get some links, maybe an email or something, then i might belive you in something that you say. so far i dont.

I am right, can you prove me wrong????? Good luck, you might want to call the office of the Sheriff of Polk County 😎

you are supposed to prove yourself being right, not for me to prove you wrong. you were already wrong and proven wrong about the whole qchat system, who knows if you just making stuff up.

again, please post a link or an email or maybe a clip from the polk county newspaper.

good luck. (again i dont have to prove you wrong, you have to prove that YOU ARE RIGHT!)

I know that I am right, I have family that works for Verizon Wireless. 😛

again, without links or an email or a newspaper article, even if you say those things about your family works for verizon wireless, which i doubt, your credibility is shot. sorry

Hey Spanky, I gave you the county and state. Prove me wrong copy and paste king 😈

nah dude. you have to prove yourself correct. if you cant then stop this nonsense, becuase i dont deal with people who dont tell the truth or lack credibility.

again, if you cant prove it then just admit it, if you can, then just prove it and thats it. (no reason to argue back and forth, just prove it and your done, thats all i ask)

nextel18 said:
any links? i asked you to provide links or an email or anything agreeing with your statement. if you cant, then your statement isnt true, just like you were proven wrong about qchat.

so try to get some links, maybe an email or something, then i might belive you in something that you say. so far i dont.

It's true genius. I read about it in the Gainesville Sun while at Gator Growl last November. Geeze.

Just when Nextel18 thought he had the final word his arch enemy Muchdrama shut him down, hahaha Thanks for the back up with this, I heard about it from a family member that works at Verizon and didn't have a link to supply to the Missing Link(Nextel1😎

cant prove it still huh? thats what i thought...

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