| QChat PTT is doomed QChat PTT is as doomed as the "hybrid" units they released. Its all about coverage. The NEXTEL iDEN network is already larger than the native Sprint PCS network. What Sprint found out (but apparently did not learn) from the hybrids is that a 1900MHz only CDMA phone exposes their weak network, they can't roam onto superior 850MHz CDMA networks. That's part of the reason that a year and a half later they've sold 1 million of them, rather than the 4 million FORMER CEO Gary Forsee promised to sell. With EV-DO not even close to overlayed across the Nextel footprint, customers are going to get pissed off and leave when they have no PTT service in areas they used to. I like Dan Hesse and I really think that if anybody can save Sprint, he can, but they still just don't seem to get it.
As for the ridiculous statement that "the service never became widespread." You might try doing some homework before making such a stupid statement; they had at one time 24 million customers on a nationwide network that still covers more people than Sprint's native network. Now maybe that doesn't qualify as being widespread to you, but I think most people would agree the service was and still is more widespread than the readership of these silly "news" articles will ever be.
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Raleigh, NC | Given that these qchat phones are basically CDMA-based, does that mean they default to conventional CDMA voice service if EVDOrevA (qchat) is not available?
If so, then what about this situation: I'm unreachable via qchat, but I'm reachable via conventional voice. Will the network tell callers trying to chirp me to use conventional voice instead?
I'm not even sure how PTT works simply on iDEN by itself, but interested to understand how this hangs together with CDMA-based PTT. |
