Sprint and Nextel announce merger....

codeyf

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We have a lunch meeting with our Nextel rep next week, and they just sent us this notice. Kind of interesting, never saw this one coming.
 

Josh

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Lol. Ur Stoopid.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., and RESTON, Va. ? December 15, 2004 ? Sprint (NYSE: FON) and Nextel Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTL) today announced that their boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive agreement for a merger of equals.
 

codeyf

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Originally posted by: Josh
Lol. Ur Stoopid.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., and RESTON, Va. ? December 15, 2004 ? Sprint (NYSE: FON) and Nextel Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXTL) today announced that their boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive agreement for a merger of equals.

/agree

I just saw the date. ghey, i never heard of this shiz, and they just now sent us this link or whatever. Saying we could talk about it next week etc etc etc.

why the hell would we now, 6 months later, have something to say about it that we didn't before?

oh well. guess I should be working....
 

murphy55d

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I just switched to Nextel. I wonder if this will affect me at all.

edit: i didnt notice the date either. :eek:
 

Josh

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Originally posted by: murphy55d
I just switched to Nextel. I wonder if this will affect me at all.

Not anytime in the near future. Most likely 2-3+ years down the road the service will be affected along with the 2-way feature...
 

Merlyn3D

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This is old old news. If you're on nextel, eventually you'll be converted over to sprint's CDMA network (which has faster speeds and more capacity than the aging iDEN nextel uses). The new company will make use of sprint and nextel bandwidth and tower locations to increase and expand coverage even more.

BTW, just wait until you see the next generation of Push-to-Talk, based on qualcomm's qchat platform. It should also be functional in a couple of years on the new network.
 

SagaLore

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Yea we've known about this for some time.

It will be great, Nextel service on the Sprint network.

We recently switched over and consolidated our entire frame to Sprint. We're now looking at their aircards. With this new meger, I think it would be a good idea to switch to their cell phones and blackberries, to have everything under one contract.
 

cavemanmoron

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Originally posted by: codeyf
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We have a lunch meeting with our Nextel rep next week, and they just sent us this notice. Kind of interesting, never saw this one coming.

hm like 6 months ago?? :) lol
 

Josh

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Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
This is old old news. If you're on nextel, eventually you'll be converted over to sprint's CDMA network (which has faster speeds and more capacity than the aging iDEN nextel uses). The new company will make use of sprint and nextel bandwidth and tower locations to increase and expand coverage even more.

BTW, just wait until you see the next generation of Push-to-Talk, based on qualcomm's qchat platform. It should also be functional in a couple of years on the new network.

What's the next generation of push-to-talk going to have?
 

Lounatik

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Originally posted by: Josh
Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
This is old old news. If you're on nextel, eventually you'll be converted over to sprint's CDMA network (which has faster speeds and more capacity than the aging iDEN nextel uses). The new company will make use of sprint and nextel bandwidth and tower locations to increase and expand coverage even more.

BTW, just wait until you see the next generation of Push-to-Talk, based on qualcomm's qchat platform. It should also be functional in a couple of years on the new network.

What's the next generation of push-to-talk going to have?

Hopefully the next generation will give you the ability to actually be able to talk to someone without having to repeat what you said five times. My company, in a fit of brilliance, just switched over to the Sprint PCS radios and they are crap to say the least. I thought that Nextel service was useless, now Sprint has taken it to a whole new level. I cannot get over how bad the quality of the calls are. You cannot understand anything the person on the other side is saying. Its gotten so bad with our radios that we now call each other up on the phone instead of using the walkie talkie feature.

But wait! Sprint and Nextel are going to be using qchat! We're saved! Now, not only will I not be able to hear Sprint people, I can also struggle to hear my friends who have Nextel. Sweet! Maybe they should call it qscat.

There, thats how I really feel.

Peace

Lounatik