Rumor Mill
A New Phone
Does anybody have any information on the new sprint/nextel phone that is both iden and cdma? If so when does it come out. Thanks for the info.
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Plus it would be rather difficult to do. Look at the CDMA+GSM handsets. They are bulky for their number of other features (not implying they don't have reason to be bigger) and took a LONG time to hit the market, which seems to imply it takes a lot of R+D.
In addition, Moto and Sprint don't seem to have smoothed out their problems yet - Sprint themselves do not carry a Motorola phone. And since they are the only ones producing iDen phones, they would have to work that out first.
In addition, Moto and Sprint don't seem to have smoothed out their problems yet - Sprint themselves do not carry a Motorola phone. And since they are the only ones producing iDen phones, they would have to work that out first.
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In a sales kickoff they just had this past weekend in downtown Novi. They had a few big wigs come into town to discuss with them about the superbowl and sprint's roll in it. They also discussed plans for the new year and they mentioned that they have plans to move away from the Motorola phones. That being said I have heard of this rumor for at least the last two years. The IDEN network is only set up till last through the 2010 year and from than the memo I was shown is that all customers will be on the CDMA network. My thinking is if thats true what are you gonna do with the billions you dumped into that network for those towers unless you plan on using that for the DC only or they plan on selling it off. Well we'll see my feeling this me...
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The gameplan with the merger right now is this.
Late 2007/Early 2008: Releasing phones that understand both languages, enabling Direct Connect between carriers. They plan to run this for a few years.
Sometime in 2009 they plan to start changing the IDEN towers to CDMA. By 2012 they plan to have everything changed over.
Late 2007/Early 2008: Releasing phones that understand both languages, enabling Direct Connect between carriers. They plan to run this for a few years.
Sometime in 2009 they plan to start changing the IDEN towers to CDMA. By 2012 they plan to have everything changed over.
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