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In <[email protected]> on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:31:10
-0500, Michael BB <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:52:40 GMT, John Navas
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>In <[email protected]> on 19 Dec 2005
>>16:02:23 -0800, "Michael3977" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>WRONG OH JOHN, it takes over 15 to 20 seconds at least in my area,
>>>discussed it with a tech today and there working on the problems.
>>
>>I would guess these are teething problems, which isn't terribly surprising.
>>On other networks Kodiak has delivered setup times of 3 seconds or less,
>>typically 2 seconds. Let's give it a little time and see.
>
>For once John Navasssss you said something that makes sense, lets
>wait and see, seeing how Cingular is NOT giving present customers any
>perks to change overr to PTT, as in special pricing and renewing
>there contract and adding PTT to there accounts. Or you could go to
>ebay and buy the Samsung, LG, or Motorola PTT phones and just give
>them the IME number and add those phones on plus the PTT feature.

Standard PTT GSM handsets use PoC (Push to talk over Cellular), which is
inferior to and incompatible with the Kodiak technology used by Cingular.

Kodiak PTT could be added to many standard GSM handsets, but only with a
special SIM, and the benefit probably isn't worth the grief (hassle and
support issues).

IMEI is irrelevant for GSM, which doesn't need handset activation, only a
working SIM.

>For me I would think that especially during Christmas time/ holiday
>season, they would have a major push on this NEW service.

More supported handsets are needed.

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