![]() ![]() Sprint Nextel will cease operation of their push-to-talk iDEN network June 30th, 2013. While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. In 1996, Nextel launched iDEN service and enjoyed several years of strong revenue thanks to the push-to-talk differentiator in the cellular market. It’s one of the reasons Sprint and Motorola just teamed up to create the Motorola i1, the world’s first push-to-talk (aka “chirp”) Android-powered smart phone. Successor Sprint Nextel Corporation NII Holdings Providing solutions for every industry, NEXTEL™ provides instant push-to-talk (PTT) communication so your teams can coordinate perfectly in real time. While we do not offer Nextel phones or services, our Interoperability Technology connects your phone with two-way radios in your business. ![]() The short answer is, no because the technology never left, it only improved. Thing is, that walkie-talkie feature actually is a relatively useful feature for a phone. All those Nextel push-to-talk phones chirping back and forth. *chirp* Right, 2005, lots of construction. *chirp* Think back a few years to when Nextel’s chirp was king. 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. So the question still stands, is Nextel back? The short answer is, no because the technology never left, it only improved. This way the system knows which direction the signal should be traveling in. The listener then presses their button to respond. PTT requires the person speaking to press a button while talking and then release it when they are done. ![]()
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