The benefits of Network Vision to Sprint's PTT customers will be wide-ranging:
#SPRINT PUSH TO TALK UPGRADE#
The plan includes a complete upgrade of Sprint's current wireless networks accompanied by changes in device chipsets and network infrastructure. Announced in December, Network Vision is expected to consolidate multiple network technologies into one seamless network resulting in enhanced coverage, quality and speed better network flexibility reduced operating costs and improved environmental sustainability. Sprint Direct Connect service is a tangible benefit of Network Vision, Sprint's blueprint to deploy a cost-effective and innovative network. In early 2012, Sprint Direct Connect is expected to add more capabilities, including international push-to-talk. The devices are expected to enable group push-to-talk for up to 200 participants, Land Mobile Radio (LMR) interoperability, and availability notification. In 2012, Sprint expects to deepen its push-to-talk portfolio, adding more devices with new form factors and features. The planned portfolio will include an ultra-rugged camera flip phone and an Android™ Smartphone with a touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard.
The devices will feature most of the capabilities available on current Sprint push-to-talk phones, plus next-generation push-to-talk applications and functionality including high-speed data access, high-resolution cameras and Bluetooth®. Sprint Direct Connect will launch with an initial portfolio of rugged devices from Motorola Mobility and Kyocera.
Sprint also is working to deliver enhanced applications on Sprint Direct Connect, best-ever in-building coverage and is planning to provide triple the square-mile reach of Sprint's current push-to-talk service. Sprint Direct Connect service is being built to deliver higher bandwidth capacity to keep up with customers' demand for data. As part of the launch, Sprint will offer an initial set of handsets packed with features designed for workgroups that rely on push-to-talk and establish a new push-to-talk brand – Sprint® Direct Connect®. (BUSINESS WIRE), MaSprint (NYSE: S) today announced plans to expand its gold-standard push-to-talk leadership, unveiling fourth-quarter launch plans for next-generation push-to-talk capabilities powered by Sprint's broadband CDMA network. Planned 4Q launch of Sprint Direct Connect will offer increased push-to-talk coverage, more broadband data capabilities, new features – and more enhancements to come as Sprint Network Vision deploys Sprint Unveils New Gold Standard in Push-to-Talk
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Sprint says that it'll offer "an ultra-rugged camera flip phone" along with a QWERTY Android device this year, with more devices in the pipe for 2012.
#SPRINT PUSH TO TALK HOW TO#
Presumably, Sprint thinks that it knows how to make the transition work this time around, promising wider coverage, better in-building signal strength, user availability notifications, support for up to 200 chat participants, and - of course - far faster data services than iDEN could ever deliver. The new so-called Sprint Direct Connect service is slated to launch in the fourth quarter of this year using CDMA underpinnings, a throwback to the QChat-based push-to-talk network that Sprint launched back in 2008 but never gained traction. Wait, didn't they try this already? Looks like Sprint is gearing up to take another shot at its seemingly unsinkable (but aging) iDEN push-to-talk network that it inherited from its Nextel acquisition - which is a good thing seeing how it's only signed up for another three years' worth of maintenance.
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