Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Sprint sets a best-before date for iDEN push-to-talk: June 30th, 2013

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Amidst all of Sprint's eagerness to [phase out its iDEN network][3], the carrier hasn't given us a hard cutoff date to mark on our calendars until now. If you're still rocking that [Motorola Titanium][4], you may have to drop your Nextel push-to-talk dreams as soon as June 30th, 2013, the earliest possible date Sprint says it could shut down the legacy service. Government customers will be getting a friendly paper reminder on June 1st of this year to make sure they're using CDMA Direct Connect phones like [the Admiral][5] well in advance. The switch-off will mark the end to a long and troubled chapter in the Sprint Nextel era, but if it helps bring about [800MHz LTE][6] sooner, we're all for it.

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