Saturday, June 29, 2013

Nextel - the renowned push-to-talk shutting down on Sunday

Nextel  - once famous and now aging network, renowned for push-to-talk, is finally headed for recycling.

After more than a year of warnings, the Nextel network will be decommissioned starting at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Sunday.

Sprint will shut down iDEN cells gradually across the country on Sunday, roughly following the time zones from east to west, spokesman Mark Bonavia said.


The system was still renowned for push-to-talk, but it fell behind on speed as 3G and then 4G technologies matured. The iDEN network averages 20K bps (bits per second) to 30K bps.

Also heading for the scrap heap is Nextel's name, which Sprint plans to remove from its corporate moniker following its merger with SoftBank, which is expected to close early next month.

( via Computer World )

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