Hey all; Im new to this forum. I am also 2 weeks new to NEXTEL,and am damn excited about it. I am also aware of the company merger probs with Sprint. My wife and I joined because we had some probs with the last company, and for several years we had thought about jumping over to the Nextel side and get DIRECTly CONNECTed..LOL! ( I liked that! LOL) Anyways I asked a few people on other forums who has delt with Nextel and what their take is. Well I have this @$$ on this one forum who thinks he knows all the shiznit about cells, since I am new can you help me out with this @$$?
Here is what he said:
"Actually Nextel was denied the ability to put up more towers by the
FCC.Bandwidth issues. Direct Connect is not free..... it's included and there is an extra tax for it. The whole walkie talkie thing does have the convenience of being almost instant, but almost every other provider has it now. Alltel's is actually faster than Nextels and on a larger network, Cingular is launching theirs on the largest network there is, and Verizon's just plain sucked. Everybody likes their new company when they first get them, but the numbers don't lie, your reception will be poorer than with your old US Cellular. The only other networks as small as nextel's belong to sprint and t-mobile, both of which have roaming agreements with other networks to help bolster theirs, Nextel doesn't have this. That DC feature is nice to have, I just hope you know a whole lot of people with nextel or you'll be hating it soon enough, otherwise you'll just be using the speakerphone option. The best Technology is most definitely not in the nextel phones, they dumb down those phones and they sell more than just motorola, RIM Blackberry. If you've noticed the phones with all the great features aren't nearly as durable as their other phones. Your i870 doesn't hold a flame to my A925, also a motorola in the same price range. The featureful phones from Nextel are nothing compared to what you can get on other carriers. You sound like a brainwashed nextel salesman right now. Tell ya what, you go play with your phone, I'm gonna go watch a movie on mine, and then maybe watch some TV on my other one(nokia 6620) "
good luck with ur phone
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