yep i have no hopes for sprint anymore. I know for a fact they will try to make our 25 lines convert to their cdma crap, but the second they stop offering iden service, i will cancel every single line and move onto another carrier. Id rather get any other carrier aside from sprint (the network who will go out of their way to let you down). Once they see the lost of so many subscribers do to the iden drop, they will trip out and thats when i will be happy once again that they ate it! lol
Personally, I have already gotten the $.99 upgrade option. Our first line was upgraded to a Admiral in early January. Sprint has continued to offer us the upgrade option for all the remaining lines. They apparently started this program the first of the year.
“Right now, I’m glad we have the iDEN network,” Hesse said. “I wouldn’t have said that 18 months ago, but I am now ... from a financial perspective.”
NEXTEL. Done. I guess that's "Life at SprintSpeed"
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There's another thread on this on the Sprint forum. Idk why when all they talk about is how great it is iden will be dead. Iden is a great service if you take it for what it is. If you want data, cdma /gsm is faster but it's funny how iden smartphones have the best wifi setups...
what do you mean the best wifi setups? the Wifi on my bold acts just the same as my 8350i did, and the wifi is no different on the i1 than any other android phone.
to be honest it's just time for Sprint to get rid of iDen and send it on it's way, they're loosing money supporting the network, and the new QChat that they're using works surprisingly well and not to mention you can actually get roaming service with it
overall after they put CDMA on the iDen spectrum you wont miss iDen at all, but to be honest in all the places i have used Sprint and Nextel, the Nextel network is so degraded anyway that it's not even worth using anymore.
Sprint's EVDO network in the "slow" state it's in now is still an upgrade from iDen's 19.2kbps data network
Left: T-Mobile HSPA+ with Amaze 4G, On the right Cox Communications at Home:
Degraded network coverage is often from "retuning" type efforts. Ymmv . There are still areas where Nextel coverage is superior to Sprint cdma though I'm sure that Sprint is making sure that the mix is biased towards cdma. Iden has a death sentence for sure but I intend to have fun with it for the rest of the year .
The iden wifi thing is based on anecdotal observations and phone reviews where users report their wifi on iden Androids pulling in stronger signal and higher speeds then non iden devices in the same area with the same wifi hotspot/area. Again, ymmv.
The biggest loss to me is that iden will be gone as an alternative to cdma/gsm. The current trend towards data, data, data has left iden very much behind in that area but they held their own on ptt for longer then anyone thought possible and without Boost iden unlimited, there would not be the current prepaid boom we enjoy today as we know it.
Yeah, techwise, iden is 2005 or whatever but so will all technologies be so sunsetted eventually no matter how cutting edge they may seem today, LTE, Wimax and HSPA+ will all bed goodbye too someday.
But I'm going to still have fun with my Motorola i series and Blackberries...! lol
yupp love iden and will forever, other countries are able to offer iden network with 3g phones unlike sprints CDMA only 3g direct phones, sprint just is a waste of a company who cant do anything right. They never did anything right. NII holdings is obviously doing something right that all 5 countries in their territory offer iden and their customers continue to use it. Also southernlinc told me they have no plans what so ever to stop offering iden, so ya. From the way i see it, sprint will just wrap it up after they try to push 4g out and sell out to someone else because they just cant cut it!
yupp love iden and will forever, other countries are able to offer iden network with 3g phones unlike sprints CDMA only 3g direct phones, sprint just is a waste of a company who cant do anything right. They never did anything right. NII holdings is obviously doing something right that all 5 countries in their territory offer iden and their customers continue to use it. Also southernlinc told me they have no plans what so ever to stop offering iden, so ya. From the way i see it, sprint will just wrap it up after they try to push 4g out and sell out to someone else because they just cant cut it!
NII only 3g ppt phones will and are using Qualcomm's Qchat same as sprint.
It's not a hybrid.
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good luck trying to get that across, he wont listen, NII is simply using HSPA+ with QChat
lol i wont listen because i know my contacts who work for motorola dont pass me rumors. Read my post in sprint section about same topic. Im not arguing what you guys say but most people just talk what they hear and think is true. Its not a impossible task to make 3g iden phone or even faster iden network than 3g. Its just sprint or other carriers dont show need for it. But doesnt mean engineers didnt make phones which can run it and have tested it out considering the fact motorola owns iden not sprint. So they own the network and can do whatever tests and make test phones for it. Like i said, ive been told they have made iden only 3g speed phones, but the need hasnt been there yet for them to make those in mass and offer it. So yea go figure.
lol i wont listen because i know my contacts who work for motorola dont pass me rumors. Read my post in sprint section about same topic. Im not arguing what you guys say but most people just talk what they hear and think is true. Its not a impossible task to make 3g iden phone or even faster iden network than 3g. Its just sprint or other carriers dont show need for it. But doesnt mean engineers didnt make phones which can run it and have tested it out considering the fact motorola owns iden not sprint. So they own the network and can do whatever tests and make test phones for it. Like i said, ive been told they have made iden only 3g speed phones, but the need hasnt been there yet for them to make those in mass and offer it. So yea go figure.
i mean technically a lot of things could be "better" if there were needs for it, i'm sure they could have made Analog phones have decent data if there was a "need", but in all reality with LTE on the horizon there is no "need" for iDen (or CDMA and GSM for that matter) to stick around, the world needs to finally come to a standard, and as of right now LTE it is.
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