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Re: The Real Reason Why SBC Won't Work With Vonage on E-911

Justin Time (a_user2000@yahoo.com)
4 Apr 2005 05:15:05 -0700

The better rumor regarding Verizon and their plans is on the wireless
front. They will let Sprint merge with Nextel and then take Sprint
Wireless. Sprint PCS is the only other major CDMA carrier. Nextel,
using Motorola's iDEN, is actually fairly close in its operation to
CDMA (a lot closer than to GSM or TDMA). The real piece the carriers
want is Nextel and their "Direct Connect" or walkie-talkie feature.

Rodgers Platt

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Two questions for you Rodgers: One,
which in your opinion is the bigger threat right now, Verizon or SBC
(which of course is also Cingular Wireless)? My second question is,
isn't the walkie-talkie feature of Nextel really just a fancy sort
of speed dial which transmits over the speaker phone? If I had a
Nextel 'walkie talkie' style phone and my friend in Chicago used his
Nextel walkie-talkie phone to call me, it surely would not go over
some airwaves would it? PAT]

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