Sprint is not financially robust and has an IDen network to turn off stranding push to talk users.
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Initially the stock went up almost 10% when Sprint described eliminating its Nextel Push to Talk network and going to a single network structure in the future with considerable cost savings.
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The good news for Clearwire was the display of a chart that showed smaller footprint cell sites that would include base station cards for a multiplicity of services including: LTE (yes, long term evolution), WIMAX, some successor concept that would continue to use the IDEN spectrum in the low bands to keep the push to talk business users happy, and CDMA as well.
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The service first offered broadband data capabilities, familiar push-to-talk features, rugged and reliable handsets, and a broadening push-to-talk coverage map.
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The device will have access to Enhanced Push-to-Talk functionality upon launch of the service.
For Nextel, the benefit of EV-DO is that handsets already exist, and it is possible to implement push-to-talk functionality, on a par with Nextel's existing service, on an EV-DO network.
For years push-to talk has been a function available from Nextel (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ), the wireless-service provider best known for catering to businesses where instant communication is useful.
"Sprint Direct Connect Now expands access to next-generation push-to-talk functionality, " said Michael Wallace, senior vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Internet Services.
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Much of the growth can be credited to Nextel's push-to-talk service, the walkie-talkie-like function that allows users to page and call friends instantly with a single button.
About thirty years ago, Motorola hooked up with Nextel to bring national two-way push-to-talk service to businesses and government through a public infrastructure network.
Extending this longstanding agreement reflects both companies' commitment to iDEN technology as a best-in-class platform for push-to-talk (PTT) services.
What kind of company does not push its employees to talk customers into more products.
Both handsets prepare customers for the eventual shutting down of iDEN by offering push-to-talk-to-yourself technology.
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The company will offer the push-to-talk feature that made Nextel popular on CDMA-based phones instead.
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Enter the Kyocera Torque, the latest Sprint smartphone featuring the network's CDMA-based Push-to-Talk service.
Like all iDen phones it has Push-to-Talk, Java, and aGPS. sadly, like other iDen phones, it lacks Bluetooth or IR.
Sprint Direct Connect Now marks another major milestone for the Sprint push-to-talk franchise.
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It also adds Push-to-Talk, which just about every carrier on Earth will be pushing this Fall if they aren't already.
First and foremost, the latest revision corrects an error that'd kept the speakerphone active after a push-to-talk conversation had ended.
All of these systems, whether trunked or conventional, are push-to-talk, meaning that only one user can speak or listen at one time.
The Sprint Direct Connect launch in October 2011 ushered in the next generation of PTT service from the company that pioneered push-to-talk.
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For Nextel push-to-talk subs, the writing's been on the wall for some time now, what with that legacy service destined to sunset on June 30th, 2013.
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As prior reports suggested, the carrier is reporting that push-to-talk services will continue to carry the treasured "Nextel Direct Connect" branding that has largely represented enterprise PTT service in the US for ages (14 years, to be exact).
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If that takes you back just a bit, then perhaps you're ready for "push-to-talk, " which appears to be the craze of the moment among wireless service providers eager to attract business users and increase the amount of airtime they use each month.
The merged company--to be called Sprint Nextel --promises to mesh the best elements of each company, including Nextel's (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) push-to-talk technology and strong corporate customer base, and Sprint's (nyse: FON - news - people ) high-speed data network.
Susan Rice out to the Sunday morning talk shows the following weekend to push that false narrative.
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So it is that when reporters wish to push a socialist agenda, they descend on urban slums and talk to people hanging out on the street doing nothing.
Another risk: Some kids may like to talk, but not to push products on their friends.
So we cannot let anyone talk down our dreams, to push back our aspirations.
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