poor "in-building" performance

I live in the Phila suburbs and almost everywhere I travel, I get a decent
enough signal, at least for the 2-way. But in my apartment, my calls are
always dropping out. I called Nextel, a tech called me back and said he
checked the map and where I live (Jenkintown, PA), Nextel has service for
outdoors and "in-car" but not "in-building!" Sure I can go outside and get
a fair to good signal, but what good is that at home? Other people that come
over with T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc., all have good signals in my
apartment. And the guy from Nextel said they have no plans to improve the
signal where I live. Guess I'm stuck with the contract now but when it
expires, no more nextel unless something happens to make it better.

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by mid next year, nextel will be selling phones that work on both the nextel and sprint networks in the move towards their new, higher spectrum, this is why the said there are no plans for new towers in your area because sprint already has the necessary towers. try to be patient and wait it out, it will be worth it in the long run.

1badss <[email protected]> wrote in
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> by mid next year, nextel will be selling phones that work on both
> the nextel and sprint networks in the move towards their new, higher
> spectrum,

No way the phone will be ready that fast. Maybe mid year 2006 but
certainly not 2005.

http://sprintnextel.mergerannounceme...estor_Pres.pdf
look at page 13 of this report it shows dual band phones in mid to late 2005, it is shown in the light blue. this is information posted on their own website.

1badss <[email protected]> wrote in
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> http://tinyurl.com/6tfa5
> look at page 13 of this report it shows dual band phones in mid to
> late 2005, it is shown in the light blue.

It says "potential" dual-mode handsets. Just because they display some
pretty graphics with what they think might happen, does not guarantee
anything. I used to work in Telecom and things NEVER went according to
schedule, there were always delays.

1badss <[email protected]> wrote in
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> http://tinyurl.com/6tfa5
> look at page 13 of this report it shows dual band phones in mid to
> late 2005, it is shown in the light blue.

It says "potential" dual-mode handsets. Just because they display some
pretty graphics with what they think might happen, does not guarantee
anything. I used to work in Telecom and things NEVER went according to
schedule, there were always delays.

well that is true but on the same mind set, the merger is not actually offical yet and might not happen but I think we both know the chances of that happening, all I was pointing out was that this, at the current moment is the only information we have and is all that we can go with. I do believe they are going to try to push out some dual band phones as soon as possible because nextel knows that their network is already overloaded and any relief would be great for them.

1badss wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/6tfa5
> look at page 13 of this report it shows dual band phones in mid to late
> 2005, it is shown in the light blue. this is information posted on
> their own website.

I would think that the bigger issue than creating a "quad-mode" phone
(if AMPS is supported) is the issues with the billing systems. They
would have to see that all systems are bridged with each other for
purposed of authentication and billing, even if they are not used.
Cingular, AT&T Wireless, and Unicel have all had systems that work with
both an analog type (SID) for AMPS/TDMA that are bridged with GSM
billing/athentication. I would think, assumging everything is approved,
they would want to try iDen/CDMA 800 (in iDen frequencies) with
traditional cellular AMPS/CDMA 800 and CDMA in the 1900 bands which the
combined system would be working. But, who knows, maybe they will use
SPCS's existing network for traditional voice calls and data, and the
iDen network will be used for PTT.