@jgp yeah man, iden is great for the services industry. Im the IT manager at a local large landscape company. we give our field workers standard motorola iden phones with the cellular service turned off. our managers are carrying around Blackberry 8350i's they get corp email and cell service on their 8350i, and can keep in touch with their cellular restricted crews though the nextel radio. I cant imagine the abuse by your average field worker if we gave them all unrestricted cellular access. you also cant beat nextel's ability to remote admin phones, ie, turn cellular restrictions on and off. weve talked to other providers and they all respond back that to make adjustments to cell restrictions or approved calling lists, we would have to get the phone back from the field worker, make the changes though the phone's menus and then give the phone back. what a waste of time
I wish sprint nextel would release a blackberry on the iden network for radio and possibly cell, and also be on the sprint network for cell and data so we can get 3g speeds. I know its possible to have the 2 radios in once device, they did it for awhile with that motorola buzz phone. used iden for radio, sprint for cell calls.
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@jgp yeah man, iden is great for the services industry. Im the IT manager at a local large landscape company. we give our field workers standard motorola iden phones with the cellular service turned off. our managers are carrying around Blackberry 8350i's they get corp email and cell service on their 8350i, and can keep in touch with their cellular restricted crews though the nextel radio. I cant imagine the abuse by your average field worker if we gave them all unrestricted cellular access. you also cant beat nextel's ability to remote admin phones, ie, turn cellular restrictions on and off. weve talked to other providers and they all respond back that to make adjustments to cell restrictions or approved calling lists, we would have to get the phone back from the field worker, make the changes though the phone's menus and then give the phone back. what a waste of time
I wish sprint nextel would release a blackberry on the iden network for radio and possibly cell, and also be on the sprint network for cell and data so we can get 3g speeds. I know its possible to have the 2 radios in once device, they did it for awhile with that motorola buzz phone. used iden for radio, sprint for cell calls.