What technology is Nextel

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In article <pFgLd.2937$bu.325@fed1read06>,
"Mij Adyaw" <mijadyaw@nospamforme.com> wrote:

> Since Sprint has acquired Nextel, what technology is used by Nextel? Is it
> CDMA?

iDEN.

<http://idenphones.motorola.com/idenHome/common/what_is_iden.jsp>

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Mij Adyaw wrote:
> I wonder if Sprint will attempt to convert the NExtel purchase to CDMA?

iDEN is an aging technology and Nextel is said to already have an iDEN to CDMA
bridge and wants to migrate to CDMA (over time). It's one of the reasons the
Sprint-Nextel merger is a good idea from the carriers' points of view.

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"Jerome Zelinske" <jeromez1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I wonder if we will see a tri-mode nextel phone; iden, cdma, analog and
> of course dual band?


Never! That would enable customers to jump more easily from one carrier to
another--like back in the analog days, when the A and B carriers used the
same technology.

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Jeremy wrote:
> "Jerome Zelinske" <jeromez1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:_upLd.2842$cl1.1182@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>
>>I wonder if we will see a tri-mode nextel phone; iden, cdma, analog and
>>of course dual band?


> Never! That would enable customers to jump more easily from one carrier to
> another--

Uhm, that's what subsidy locks are for.



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