Comments on: When is your Nextel service going kaput? There’s a map for that

By: Markcomen

Markcomen — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:12:21 +0000

The main reason I have the Nextel phones is because they are the only ones I have ever found that are made for people with a hearing disability. The ear speakers are large and plenty loud for me. What am I to do after they shut it down??? Anybody got any ideas?

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:50 +0000

They are giving out phones for 97¢ for some models for.long term nextel customers. Call customer care to see if you qualify

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:59:34 +0000

Sprint has already shut down towers in my area as of 3 weeks ago. They are trying to get customers to switch over to sprint. Sprint is using the 1xx network on the ppt. Also the coverage map for it has more towers the. The iden network.

By: Shansero

Shansero — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:17:26 +0000

Sprint needs to give long-term Nextel customers a healthy discount for 2 years to switch to Sprints version of the Ptt now! The sooner the customers get moving, the easier it will be. Virgin mobiles 1500 minute plan with 1000 text for each 30 day period will save you money. Its only 30 bucks!! Even without roaming Virgin mobile picks up better than Nextel. I have used all 3 Sprint is the best choice.

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:13:16 +0000

Hi Jon,

Actually the iDEN network is getting shut down. Sprint is reproducing PTT on its 3G and LTE networks, but I wouldn’t call it an upgrade. All attempts to replicate Motorola’s purpose-built push-to-talk technology over an IP channel have fallen flat.

As for a new service provider, you’re right Nextel and Boost customers can switch over to the Sprint or Virgin side of the business (Sprint may even keep the Boost brand). The point I’m trying to make is iDEN is dying and the remaining customers will have to make a decision on what to do soon.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:38:11 +0000

Sprint is actually doing a great job of minimizing customer frustration by shutting down specific towers that have the fewest minutes of use(MOU) and extended the range of the other towers until eventually migrating around 95% of nextel customers to sprint push to talk by the end of 2013….sooooo you might want to think twice before posting such a misleading statement especially if you just so happen to own stock with a competing carrier…..its a federal offense….

By: jon

jon — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:06:25 +0000

Its my understanding that the iden network part is getting upgraded (which is a good thing) and ptt will still work, but on a different platform with better coverage and faster data. Whats wrong with that? So what if you have to upgrade the handset, customers want the better devices anyway. Not sure how this will force ptt customers to find anothet carrier when no other advanced ptt carrier exists.