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Wi-Fi Tweak Catches Dropped Calls
News Nextel Communications and RadioFrame Networks on Tuesday launched a wireless service aimed at improving indoor coverage and capabilities for wireless voice and data services. Elliott Hoole, senior director of technology development at RadioFrame...
[August 20, 2003, 12:20]
'Walkie-talkie' Mobile Phones Face Testing Time
News Nextel Communications and two other carriers are expanding their services for a mobile phone walkie-talkie feature called push to talk -- but a new study predicts a turbulent next few months for the technology.
[June 24, 2003, 7:55]
CES: New Phones Unveiled
News Portable keyboards are already available for many wireless devices, including most other PDAs and Nextel Communications' line of Java phones. Sprint is following Nextel Communications, Motorola and Sun Microsystems, which started selling Java...
[January 8, 2002, 10:33]
Mobile-chip Firm Rides IPO Wave
News Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications are adopting a form of GPS for E911. SiRF has inserted its technology into Motorola phones on the Nextel network, Hewlett-Packard handhelds, and cars from Toyota and Honda.
[April 23, 2004, 13:30]
Microsoft May Buy Stake In Cable & Wireless
News Earlier this week, Microsoft agreed to invest $600m in wireless operator Nextel Communications Inc.in return for Nextel's commitment to use the Microsoft Network for its Web-phone online service, and drop a previous agreement with AOL's Netscape...
[May 12, 1999, 15:17]
Tech Community Rally Around Katrina's Victims
News Mobile operator Sprint Nextel announced on Tuesday it would dispatch nearly two dozen specialty vehicles to coordinate the recovery effort and restore communications services. The company's emergency response team will come equipped with 3,000...
[September 1, 2005, 16:35]
Nokia To Pour Java Into 100 Million Phones
News Within the past two years, carriers from NTT DoCoMo in Japan to Nextel Communications in the United States have begun offering Java phones to customers. Some, like Nextel Communications, are already offering Java phones and services in North America.
[June 6, 2001, 9:00]
Unlimited-call Plans Spark US Price-war Fears
News The actions put pressure on Sprint Nextel, the number-three US wireless service, to match the plans or risk customers defecting, analysts said. Sprint Nextel spokeswoman Leigh Horner declined to comment on future plans but said Sprint was testing...
[February 20, 2008, 7:26]
Tech Heavyweights Team Up On 3G
News Sprint, before it merged and became Sprint Nextel, began building a 3G network based on what it calls Evolution-Data Optimized, or EV-DO, technology. Since the $6.5bn (£3.5bn) merger with Nextel, the company has continued to expand that network.
[July 28, 2006, 9:55]
Nextel May Expand 'push To Talk' Service
News Nextel Communications is exploring whether to offer a global version of its popular "push to talk" walkie-talkie feature for mobile phones, as rivals work on their own US-centric versions of the technology.
[May 21, 2003, 13:06]
Push To Talk Heads For Wi-Fi
News In the decade since the technology was developed by Nextel Communications and Motorola, push-to-talk services have only been available over cellular networks. Nextel Communications and Sprint, the other two US carriers offering push-to-talk service...
[August 12, 2004, 9:35]
Nextel Turns Its Back On WiMax
News Nextel says it no longer considers wireless wunderkind WiMax a future option for mobile broadband service, a rare blow to a technology backed by major tech heavyweights. Also, Nextel spokesman Aaron Radelet said on Tuesday, the carrier doesn't have...
[December 1, 2004, 7:55]
Avaya Case Study: NEXTEL De Mexico S.A.
White Papers Nextel is one of the world's leading providers of fully integrated wireless communication services designed to meet the needs of business customers in selected international markets. Nextel has installed an Avaya CONVERSANT System for Interactive...
[September 5, 2006, 0:00]
Mobile Phones Fall Over In Emergency
News We need electricity to power our cell sites, but when you don't have that, it's out of our control," Nextel Communications spokesman Chris Grandis said. Nextel's Grandis said the company was sending generators to power sites in the Detroit area.
[August 18, 2003, 9:15]
Bad Debtors Can Still Switch Mobile Providers
News AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile USA and Nextel Communications all say they will comply eventually with the number portability mandate. US mobile phone subscribers behind on their accounts can still take their telephone number with them...
[July 4, 2003, 8:15]
P2P Service Seeks Corporate Swaps
News Palm and cell phone company Nextel Communications each use the company's software to send training videos to their sales force, for example. Founded and funded by former Netscape Communications executives, Kontiki's core product uses ordinary PCs...
[December 10, 2002, 7:45]
Vonage Faces More Patent Claims
News Last year, a subsidiary of Sprint-Nextel filed suit against Vonage. Then, in June, Verizon Communications filed suit against the company, claiming it had infringed on seven patents that describe technology for completing phone calls between Voice...
[July 11, 2006, 9:55]
MCI WorldCom, Sprint Talking Merger
News Earlier this year, MCI WorldCom engaged in serious negotiations to acquire Nextel Communications, a pure wireless concern. When WorldCom acquired MCI Communications for over $40bn in late 1997, it sold MCI's Internet business to Britain's Cable...
[September 24, 1999, 16:38]
A Year Ago: MCI WorldCom, Sprint Talking Merger
News Earlier this year, MCI WorldCom engaged in serious negotiations to acquire Nextel Communications, a pure wireless concern. When WorldCom acquired MCI Communications for over $40bn in late 1997, it sold MCI's Internet business to Britain's Cable...
[September 24, 2000, 7:05]
Intel Deal Provides WiMax Boost
News He is also a major shareholder of cellphone carrier Nextel Communications and satellite company ICO. These are two very big names," said Robert Pepper, chief of policy development for the Federal Communications Commission.
[October 26, 2004, 9:20]
