Sprint lays down plans for the future of direct connection services-CNET is

Once we closed for the past few months, Sprint today definitively laid down specific plans for the future of Nextel direct connect network. The carrier says it will keep the main elements of the network of impetus to talk (PTT), but it will transition service from iDEN CDMA from the fourth quarter of this year.

Move will be the centerpiece of the carrier network of vision "programme, which it announced in December last year. Through the consolidation of incompatible networks, Sprint promises to improve the coverage and data speeds, increasing the capacity, increasing the flexibility of the network and reduce the operating costs.

After almost six years of Nextel's acquisition of 35 billion dollars, the carrier is struggling to integrate different Nextel communications networks, services and subscribers in their tenders. He always supports Sprint finally will replace iDEN, but several attempts of this so-as the company's QChat phones--has failed.

What is to come
How will the Sprint, the new network function? In the short term will begin rolling out new CDMA devices with direct connect to attract new and to encourage existing iDEN users to transition to CDMA. Phones that will sport rugged designs, which for a long time are Nextel hallmark will come initially from Kyocera and Motorola. Though Kyocera will be somewhat new to directly connect the world, Motorola is the exclusive manufacturer of Nextel's iDEN devices for a large part of the life of this carrier.

Precise details of the new devices are still a little, but the first crops must include durable flip phone with digital camera and Android-powered Smartphone with touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard. Then in 2012, Sprint promises more CDMA push to talk device with a different design.

As regards direct link offers Sprint says, the new devices will have the "most" of the possibilities of its current PTT phones. The carrier is mum on whether it will remove all functions, but will add support for group push-to-talk for up to 200 participants, interoperability with land mobile radio, availability of information and international PTT.

Although certain iDEN users may balk at the change, Sprint is pledging to exclude their sites iDEN cell until 2013 Carrier also underlines that the use of the technology of CDMA PTT will increase coverage of nearly 2,7 million square miles or 309 million people and to promote in-building coverage.

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