Da-Chief
06-14-2008, 13:30
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Way back in 1993, Nextel got a lot of attention for its innovative foray into the first mobile push-to-talk service. This service allows the user to simply push a button and immediately connect a call rather than having to wait for that whole dialing-and-answering process; it s often compared to the walkie talkie. The service never became widespread but it moved forward with developments of a push-to-talk service by Qualcomm (QChat) which connects calls in under one second (see video demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An_FIV4PCFI)). The Qualcomm service was sold to Nextel and then acquired by Sprint which announced plans to launch the service back in 2006. Sprint has now unveiled (http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/voice/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RBCCM5XBWKQEKQSNDLPCK HSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=208403989) four different mobile phone handsets that utilize this technology. They go on sale tomorrow in forty different markets and will operate over Sprint s EV-DO Revision A network. Sprint hasn t benefitted much from its acqusition of Nextel but some say that use of this technology could be the way to make up for that.
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Way back in 1993, Nextel got a lot of attention for its innovative foray into the first mobile push-to-talk service. This service allows the user to simply push a button and immediately connect a call rather than having to wait for that whole dialing-and-answering process; it s often compared to the walkie talkie. The service never became widespread but it moved forward with developments of a push-to-talk service by Qualcomm (QChat) which connects calls in under one second (see video demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An_FIV4PCFI)). The Qualcomm service was sold to Nextel and then acquired by Sprint which announced plans to launch the service back in 2006. Sprint has now unveiled (http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/voice/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RBCCM5XBWKQEKQSNDLPCK HSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=208403989) four different mobile phone handsets that utilize this technology. They go on sale tomorrow in forty different markets and will operate over Sprint s EV-DO Revision A network. Sprint hasn t benefitted much from its acqusition of Nextel but some say that use of this technology could be the way to make up for that.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-Revives-Nextels-PushtoTalk-Innovation-95285)
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