Nextel Communications (now Sprint Nextel Corporation) was a U.S. telecommunications company famous for inventing the push-to-talk feature. They had 20 million customers in 2006. In 2006 the company was aquired by Sprint to merge to form the Sprint Nextel Corporation. They were primary sponsor of NASCAR's Cup series until 2007.
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| - Nextel Communications (now Sprint Nextel Corporation) was a U.S. telecommunications company famous for inventing the push-to-talk feature. They had 20 million customers in 2006. In 2006 the company was aquired by Sprint to merge to form the Sprint Nextel Corporation. They were primary sponsor of NASCAR's Cup series until 2007.
- With, especially, the expansion of Nextel's Direct Connect two-way service to nationwide (and some international locations), the has become another potentially useful tool for out-of-band voice communications. In the outcome of the Sprint/Nextel merger, Direct Connect is being transitioned from the original iDen implementation to a Sprint implementation of Qualcomm's QChat application, running over Sprint EVDO; this is finally in production service, with 4 basic and midlevel handsets available, and interoperability between the QChat and iDEN networks as demonstrated in this video.
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| - With, especially, the expansion of Nextel's Direct Connect two-way service to nationwide (and some international locations), the has become another potentially useful tool for out-of-band voice communications. In the outcome of the Sprint/Nextel merger, Direct Connect is being transitioned from the original iDen implementation to a Sprint implementation of Qualcomm's QChat application, running over Sprint EVDO; this is finally in production service, with 4 basic and midlevel handsets available, and interoperability between the QChat and iDEN networks as demonstrated in this video. The BlackBerry turned out to be the 8350i, which -- presumably because its design needed to be locked while the rumored Nextel spinout from Sprint was still up in the air -- uses iDen DC (and wiDEN slow-speed data, but that's another story). As with most communications tools, Direct Connect/PTT works more efficiently if everyone involved is using the same protocols on a network.
- Nextel Communications (now Sprint Nextel Corporation) was a U.S. telecommunications company famous for inventing the push-to-talk feature. They had 20 million customers in 2006. In 2006 the company was aquired by Sprint to merge to form the Sprint Nextel Corporation. They were primary sponsor of NASCAR's Cup series until 2007.
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