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When AT&T moved from TDMA to GSM, it was about a 3 or 4 year transition that took a long time to get 20 million people off of. Ultimately, there were around 100k users who still wouldn't let go of their TDMA service (and devices). Some ultimately were shut off when that technology was turned down finally.

Sprint/Nextel really has a lot of work ahead of themselves. I was starting to think they were getting their business path corrected finally and setting course to make it 3 major players. If they can just get their network to support the push to talk and obtain some cooperation from a fledgling Motorola, they would probably both have considerably success from their efforts.

At this rate though, Sprint is pushing for bankruptcy. ]]>May 1st 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/May 2nd 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/And texting does at times take quite awhile for the recipient and myself to receive, especially when sending or receiving from TMobile, anyone else having the same problem?
PTT is the best though!]]>May 2nd 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/
Your tie in with the VZW CEO's comments made for a nice segue, but the texting issues on Boost/Nextel have nothing to do with capacity or a customer influx. That seems to be the newest excuse for this 4-year-old problem -- see Boost's PR guy on the Boost Facebook page. These texting problems have existed since Nextel launched MMS in 2004, and back then they blamed the delays on "too much text spam." Boost's variation, "we're just too successful to keep up," isn't any more true than the former excuse.

And while you're correct that iDEN wasn't originally built to do text messaging, that doesn't mean that texting on every iDEN network is unreliable. Southern LINC is an iDEN carrier in the southeastern US that has implemented an SMS gateway on their iDEN network, and it works very well for them. Nextel/Boost, with their MMS system managed by an (apparently) ineffective 3rd party provider, is the problem -- not iDEN.

Lastly, judging from all the discussion over on the Boost Mobile forum at HowardForums, I wouldn't say anything about the voice performance is "flawless." PTT, however, is still top notch.


@ED: Sprint Nextel has absolutely no plans to dismantle its iDEN network in "less than 360 days." If you're talking about the merger-era announcement about supporting iDEN till 2010, that was pushed forward to 2012 soon after, and then to "indefinitely" after they couldn't find a buyer for iDEN.]]>May 2nd 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/May 3rd 2009 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/May 7th 2009 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/texting-goes-to-hell-in-a-handbasket-on-boost-seidenberg-vindic/Jul 5th 2009 11:57PM