Nextel iden history?
Anyone point me in the right direction where I could find a history of Nextel/iden? I am trying to do a paper explaining the development of iden technology and can't seem to find anything on the roots of both Nextel and iden.
Any help would be great!
Any help would be great!
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you can go to nextel.com. maybe type in the google headlines: nextel+iden. something of that sort.
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NEXTEL was originally called "FleetCall". They used traditional Motorola Type I tunking at single transmit/receive sites. After Motorola developed iDEN (or under it's first name "Harmony"), they teamed up with FleetCall, bought out 95% of the traditional SMR licenses nationwide, and created a cellularized SMR system that is currently called NEXTEL.
This is a brief overview of how it happened. I used to be a FleetCall user back in the late 80's/early 90's and saw the transition firsthand. As Motorola developed iDEN and NEXTEL deployed it, they are totally different topics. It all depends if your paper is going to be technical in nature or a business prospective as to which company you want to research.
This is a brief overview of how it happened. I used to be a FleetCall user back in the late 80's/early 90's and saw the transition firsthand. As Motorola developed iDEN and NEXTEL deployed it, they are totally different topics. It all depends if your paper is going to be technical in nature or a business prospective as to which company you want to research.
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It looks like you should check out the front page ( home page ) according to the wall street journal Nextel and sprint are going to merge.
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jukebox2 said:
It looks like you should check out the front page ( home page ) according to the wall street journal Nextel and sprint are going to merge.
His request was the past details of iDEN and NEXTEL, not the current events. Your comment doesn't answer his question.
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Basically a business prospective, profiling Nextel. Current news is easy to come by it's the early years that i'm having problems with. What made Nextel choose to use iden? Was there a competing technology? How come other TDMA carriers of the time did not use iden?
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iden was a spawn off of tdma developed exclusively by moto. I am not 100% sure on this open but i believe that nextel also owned the patent rights or else they had some exclusive agreement with Moto about iden. that is why until last year no one had a walkie talkie phone that was not iden it was patented. but then the patent wan out and now they are all over. also that is why sprint dropped moto from there line up, they were upset about the nextel moto deal.
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stevelvl said:Yes! Now we have two of Phonescoop's most brilliant minds posting in the same forum! Tell your children you were there when it all went down!
iden was a spawn off of tdma developed exclusively by moto. I am not 100% sure on this open but i believe that nextel also owned the patent rights or else they had some exclusive agreement with Moto about iden. that is why until last year no one had a walkie talkie phone that was not iden it was patented. but then the patent wan out and now they are all over. also that is why sprint dropped moto from there line up, they were upset about the nextel moto deal.
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stevelvl said:
iden was a spawn off of tdma developed exclusively by moto. .
iDEN is actually a spinoff of Motorola SmartZone trunking. It just happen to use TDMA for capacity, but that is not the origional technology that was utilized.
I am not 100% sure on this open but i believe that nextel also owned the patent rights or else they had some exclusive agreement with Moto about iden. that is why until last year no one had a walkie talkie phone that was not iden it was patented. but then the patent wan out and now they are all over..
NEXTEL owned nothing in iDEN. Moto. ownes the technology outright and allows NEXTEL and SoLink to utilize the technology in the US. No other ...
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MarkF said:...
NEXTEL was originally called "FleetCall". They used traditional Motorola Type I tunking at single transmit/receive sites. After Motorola developed iDEN (or under it's first name "Harmony"), they teamed up with FleetCall, bought out 95% of the traditional SMR licenses nationwide, and created a cellularized SMR system that is currently called NEXTEL.
This is a brief overview of how it happened. I used to be a FleetCall user back in the late 80's/early 90's and saw the transition firsthand. As Motorola developed iDEN and NEXTEL deployed it, they are totally different topics. It all depends if your paper is going to be technical in nature or a business prospective as to which company you want to research.<
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