Sprint thought they knew what they were doing. On paper it sounded like a match made in heaven. They would scoop up Nextel's cash cow subscribers, and migrate them to CDMA. They made a big mistake when they migrated Boost mobile prepaid customers to iDEN shortly after the merger, maxing out the capacity of the existing Nextel towers and alienating Nextel subscribers. They ended up having to invest in additional 1800 iDEN towers nationwide to keep up, but they still ended up losing millions of subscribers. I believe a lot of those fleet contracts switched to Verizon, but the feds still use Nextel.
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Sprint thought they knew what they were doing. On paper it sounded like a match made in heaven. They would scoop up Nextel's cash cow subscribers, and migrate them to CDMA. They made a big mistake when they migrated Boost mobile prepaid customers to iDEN shortly after the merger, maxing out the capacity of the existing Nextel towers and alienating Nextel subscribers. They ended up having to invest in additional 1800 iDEN towers nationwide to keep up, but they still ended up losing millions of subscribers. I believe a lot of those fleet contracts switched to Verizon, but the feds still use Nextel.
http://news.cnet.com/Broken-connection-for-Sprint-Nextel/210...
Of course, you're totally right. It was a decent deal on paper but they totally failed on planning/execution.
I miss PTT. I wish Android/iOS devices supported it directly.
Check out the Motorola i1. An iDEN Android phone... which seemingly will ship with v1.5. Ouch.
BTW, have ever worked for Motorola/Nextel? :)
An iDEN Android phone
I never thought I would see an Android iDEN phone!
I've never worked for Motorola or Nextel, but I have been a loyal Sprint customer for over 10 years.