Is Nextel *trying* to annoy their customers?

Trying ?
"Cordata" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Since the beginning of the year, my signal quality has gone down
> considerably in the Metro-Detroit, Michigan area... I'm also starting
> to find more and more dead zones that weren't there before.
>
> Could this the beginning of Sprint / Nextel killing their Nextel part
> of the towers to make room for more Sprint nodes?
>
> I'm just trying to see if anyone has heard anything since Nextel's
> support isn't much help. Their answer more or less came down to
> trying to sell me a new phone to replace my i1000plus... Yes, I know
> it's an old phone, but I have no interest in giving Nextel any more
> money than I have to.
>
> I'm about ready to shop around for another company that offers PTT
> since that's the main use of the current phone.
>
> Cordata

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Well then I agree. I have been with them since 94 and the service has gone
to Sh*t Fast. I could care less about PTT I just need a phone that works...
"Cordata" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I meant more than normal.
>
>
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:02:54 -0600, "Hercules" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Trying ?
>>
>>"Cordata" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> Since the beginning of the year, my signal quality has gone down
>>> considerably in the Metro-Detroit, Michigan area... I'm also starting
>>> to find more and more dead zones that weren't there before.
>>>
>>> Could this the beginning of Sprint / Nextel killing their Nextel part
>>> of the towers to make room for more Sprint nodes?
>>>
>>> I'm just trying to see if anyone has heard anything since Nextel's
>>> support isn't much help. Their answer more or less came down to
>>> trying to sell me a new phone to replace my i1000plus... Yes, I know
>>> it's an old phone, but I have no interest in giving Nextel any more
>>> money than I have to.
>>>
>>> I'm about ready to shop around for another company that offers PTT
>>> since that's the main use of the current phone.
>>>
>>> Cordata
>

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:41:57 -0500, Cordata <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Could this the beginning of Sprint / Nextel killing their Nextel part
>of the towers to make room for more Sprint nodes?

I doubt that the Nextel network is being brought down. They have
committed to support iDen until quite a few years out. I was a little
dissapointed when they announced that, since it would seem that the
Sprint/Nextel merger could have resulted in better service by changing
to one technology.

At one point during the summer of 2005 service got bad in Connecticut.
I was in the service center and they were saying that there was work
going on to add Sprint PCS to the area Nextel towers that didn't have
that, so there were some sites that were down. I don't know if there
was any truth to it or not. Service has gotten back to normal since
then, maybe even slightly better.

Brian

In article <[email protected]>, Brian Peck wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:41:57 -0500, Cordata <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>Could this the beginning of Sprint / Nextel killing their Nextel part
>>of the towers to make room for more Sprint nodes?

I personally wonder if some of this is caused by some of their crappy
phones that trade good transmitter/receivers for smaller packages
in the process of luring in new customers that want smaller phones..
I've got an i90c that I get fairly good reception with (not perfect by
any means), but my sister-in-law's phone (i860 IIRC? -- much smaller
than my i90c) sitting right next to mine won't get a signal at all
(or perhaps spotty one-bar) on our front porch where mine can get two+
bars of signal strength. This leaves me wondering if bigger is actually
better than slimmer, etc.. Comments?