Go to sprint.com/nextelnetwork shows most nextel sites and timeline to shut down, in lousiana area shows some sites they are doing away with. Wonder when network vision site map is coming??
May for Philly as well. If you look at Louisiana, looks like things have begun there already...
I would not be surprised if they start forced migration mid summer.
“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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May for Philly as well. If you look at Louisiana, looks like things have begun there already...
I would not be surprised if they start forced migration mid summer.
Sprint will not start forced migration mid summer.There will probably be mass cancelation as people port iden lines to other carriers at some point.Qchat2 with a couple of POS kyocera phones hardly is a migration path for iden customers.They have to be kidding.
I imagine people will start cancelling when coverage they once had goes away. Right now they are decreasing tower density which means outdoor coverage only. Looking at some of the towers being turned off in LA it would appear that some areas will lose coverage completely. There are also a few towers in MS being turned off in mostly rural areas. This is the beginning of the end for iDEN. Hopefully people will start making the plans now and not wait until the last minute. At that point they will blame Sprint for not giving them enough time to move.
It would have been smart of them to atleast push out some more options as far as Sprint direct connect phones.. its also weird, why would they still offer nextel phones both at stores and online, if in a few months they plan on decompiling it? can anyone shed some light on that? its like oh ya let me go buy a nextel phone, then 2 months later be told hey you cant use it you need to switch now.. Youd think theyd stop offering it.
Their map really impressed me. They had towers that were closer together than Sprints 1900mhz towers. Too bad they just aren't swapping equipment out.
Agreed. The Nextel network is build like a beast. In the small market of Lansing, MI, I could at least 6 Nextel sites right downtown that Sprint is not on.
Yeah Nextel actually had put up more cell sites than Sprint did here in Los Angeles up until the time of the merger. But the synergy sites which followed after the merger put Sprint in the lead by far. I guess they needed the extra capacity due to the way iDEN technology was.
Agreed. The Nextel network is build like a beast. In the small market of Lansing, MI, I could at least 6 Nextel sites right downtown that Sprint is not on.
Nextel has sites which are close together strictly for capacity reasons which in most cases are now not needed.The Iden system actually works better with less sites operating at higher power levels.If Sprint removes the excess base stations and carefully retunes the network the only loss is indoor coverage.The area will still have coverage and be fully functional.Right now iden has way too much capacity with way too many sites.If Iden was more effecient it would have never needed all these base stations to begin with.
I'm disappointed. The only tower we have here for Sprint service is a Nextel tower and it's being "evaluated" mid-May for shutdown. We have no known "network improvements" on the CDMA side - thus, when this gets shut down we're completely screwed. No iDEN and no CDMA.
On top of that, I miss the Off Network capabilities of iDEN and would wish they'd come up with some form of that on the CDMA PTT network, somehow. I've been planning out a DIY off-network, well, network with iDEN handsets and Asterisk for a college project.
I'm disappointed. The only tower we have here for Sprint service is a Nextel tower and it's being "evaluated" mid-May for shutdown. We have no known "network improvements" on the CDMA side - thus, when this gets shut down we're completely screwed. No iDEN and no CDMA.
You misunderstand. Sprint is decommissioning Nextel iDEN base stations, not full cell sites or "towers." If Sprint has overlaid CDMA1X on an iDEN site, then CDMA1X will remain, while iDEN may be taken down this spring (and definitely will be decommissioned in the next two years).
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Originally Posted by morningpride
its like oh ya let me go buy a nextel phone, then 2 months later be told hey you cant use it you need to switch now.. Youd think theyd stop offering it.
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