Sprint’s recently successful test of the first PTT (Push-To-Talk) connection between an iDEN and CDMA phone was leading up to this. Today Sprint announced that the PTT technology will be dubbed Nextel Direct Connect, regardless of whether the phone s used on the Nextel or Sprint network.
The Nextel Direct Connect feature will be a cross-network feature, allowing instant PTT communication between Sprint’s CDMA and Nextel’s iDEN phones. Sprint also announced new Nextel Direct Connect-enabled phones for the Sprint CDMA network. They aren’t the CDMA/iDEN hybrid phones that work on either network, but they’ll be able to communicate with Nextel phones through the Nextel Direct Connect feature.
Sprint press release.
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Aug 16 2007, 08:50 PM
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