Market Insight

Sprint Nextel Pushes Push-to-Talk into the 21st Century

Author: Aditya Kaul, Practice Director, Mobile Networks

Published: 31 Jan 2011

Sprint Nextel’s recent announcement about shutting down its iDEN network should not be a big surprise. The technology is nearly two decades old technology and is finally succumbing to the need for high-speed wireless data. Anyone who has used the iDEN network for data knows that it is sorely lacking in that regard.

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