Cingular PTT

Word from some of the cingular people is that Cingular is to get a PTT
function on some of thier phones in the near future. This is to keep up
with the likes of Nextel and Sprint and Verizon who jumped on the
bandwagon. I am not sure how well that a PTT will work with a GSM system
but hopefully it will take off.

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Chad Michael Crews <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Word from some of the cingular people is that Cingular is to get a PTT
> function on some of thier phones in the near future. This is to keep up
> with the likes of Nextel and Sprint and Verizon who jumped on the
> bandwagon. I am not sure how well that a PTT will work with a GSM system
> but hopefully it will take off.

Maybe after they turn their phones into walkie-talkies, they can then
turn them into something really useful, like a toaster-oven... ;-)

On 27 Jan 2004 15:34:37 -0800, [email protected] (Todd Allcock)
wrote:

>Maybe after they turn their phones into walkie-talkies, they can then
>turn them into something really useful, like a toaster-oven

Or a fully functional cell phone

"Chad Michael Crews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Word from some of the cingular people is that Cingular is to get a PTT
> function on some of thier phones in the near future. This is to keep up
> with the likes of Nextel and Sprint and Verizon who jumped on the
> bandwagon. I am not sure how well that a PTT will work with a GSM system
> but hopefully it will take off.

The PTT is supposed to work over the GPRS network. Latencies are said to be
shorter than for CDMA, though not quite up to par with IDEN, which has a
near zero access time. Cingular hopes to get all the GSM operators working
together, which should give a bigger PTT coverage than anyone else.

Mark



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bones boy <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 27 Jan 2004 15:34:37 -0800, [email protected] (Todd Allcock)
> wrote:
>
> >Maybe after they turn their phones into walkie-talkies, they can then
> >turn them into something really useful, like a toaster-oven
>
> Or a fully functional cell phone

Faie enough!

A great line from comedian Bill Maher recently went: "I don't need my
cell phone to play video games or take pictures or double as a
Walkie-Talkie--I just need it to work... thanks for all the bells and
whistles, but I could communicate better with ACTUAL bells and
whistles!"

Not all CDMA phones with the PTT are slow. Sprint is experiencing only a
..3 second delay which is pretty close to IDEN which is measured in
nanoseconds.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Mark W. Oots wrote:

>
> "Chad Michael Crews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Word from some of the cingular people is that Cingular is to get a PTT
> > function on some of thier phones in the near future. This is to keep up
> > with the likes of Nextel and Sprint and Verizon who jumped on the
> > bandwagon. I am not sure how well that a PTT will work with a GSM system
> > but hopefully it will take off.
>
> The PTT is supposed to work over the GPRS network. Latencies are said to be
> shorter than for CDMA, though not quite up to par with IDEN, which has a
> near zero access time. Cingular hopes to get all the GSM operators working
> together, which should give a bigger PTT coverage than anyone else.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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"Chad Michael Crews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Not all CDMA phones with the PTT are slow. Sprint is experiencing only a
> .3 second delay which is pretty close to IDEN which is measured in
> nanoseconds.

I'm not sure that I can wait out a whole 300,000,000 nS
delay--you say iDEN is a shorter wait?

John C.

Yeah IDEN is shorter but not that much.

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, John Cummings wrote:

> "Chad Michael Crews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Not all CDMA phones with the PTT are slow. Sprint is experiencing only a
> > .3 second delay which is pretty close to IDEN which is measured in
> > nanoseconds.
>
> I'm not sure that I can wait out a whole 300,000,000 nS
> delay--you say iDEN is a shorter wait?
>
> John C.
>
>
>

In article <[email protected]>,
Chad Michael Crews <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah IDEN is shorter but not that much.
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, John Cummings wrote:
>
> > "Chad Michael Crews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > Not all CDMA phones with the PTT are slow. Sprint is experiencing only a
> > > .3 second delay which is pretty close to IDEN which is measured in
> > > nanoseconds.
> >
> > I'm not sure that I can wait out a whole 300,000,000 nS
> > delay--you say iDEN is a shorter wait?
> >
> > John C.



Only the SPRINTPCS apologists say that the ReadyLink is close to Nextel.
Not even SprintPCS claims that. They say:

"Sprint PCS Raedy Link may not be appropriate for use by providers of
emergency services. It will take several seconds to establish the
initial Sprint PCS Ready Link connection; users may experience slight
delays in subsequent "in session" communications."

Sprint PCS Ready Link brochure LIT63585