“While it is no longer one of our primary brands, we maintain ownership, sell handsets under the Nextel brand and currently have no plans to sell it.”Feb 12, 2018
Is Nextel Push-To-Talk still available?
Sprint Nextel will cease operation of their push-to-talk iDEN network June 30th, 2013. ... The system uses Time Division Multipe Access (TDMA) and speech compression technologies and was used by Sprint Nextel to provide half-duplex push-to-talk trunked two-way radio services on its cell phones.Jun 5, 2013
What were the old walkie-talkie phones called?
The first handheld walkie-talkie was the AM SCR-536 transceiver from 1941, also made by Motorola, named the Handie-Talkie (HT). The terms are often confused today, but the original walkie-talkie referred to the back mounted model, while the handie-talkie was the device which could be held entirely in the hand.
What year did Nextel phones come out?
Launched in 1987 to take advantage of the specialized mobile radio (SMR) market, Nextel Communications today is one of the major digital mobile phone operators in the United States.
When did push-to-talk phones come out?
1996
What killed Nextel?
Sprint effectively killed the Nextel brand--and removed it from its corporate name--after shutting down the Nextel iDEN network in the middle of last year. In the shutdown, Sprint lost millions of subscribers, many of whom had so-called mixed accounts with both iDEN and CDMA devices.
How do Nextel phones work?
Nextel phones offer a service called Direct Connect that allows you to push a single button and connect with another Nextel user. This service is typically free as long as the other user is in the local coverage area. ... It uses the 800 MHz portion of the radio spectrum assigned to specialized mobile radio (SMR) service.
How far does Direct Talk work?
As with all simplex handhelds, range figures vary tremendously; Nextel says “up to 7” but advertises 2-3 miles as a more common range. (Although it's rarely done on cell phones these days, remember that extending the antenna will help considerably.) Private (one-on-one) and group calls are supported.