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Scandisk - Justin Time wrote in messagenews:telecom22.540.9@telecom-digest.org: Dana wrote in message news:: Hudson Leighton wrote in message news:telecom22.531.15@telecom-digest.org: In article , Ed Ellers wrote: Monty Solomon quoted from a Reuters story by Sinead Carew: "Nextel, the No. 5 U.S. wireless telephone company..." Strictly speaking they're a land mobile radio company; the FCC allows them to provide the equivalent of wireless telephony in order to increase competition in that market. Are they still just a big 800mhz trunked system, with a phone patch? Nope. This is not your Grand Pa's Nextel. They (Nextel) are more than just a land mobile radio company. -Hudson http://www.skypoint.com/~hudsonl What's your point of reference in stating they are "more than just a land mobile radio company?" The company still does not own any "cellular" or "PCS" spectrum and operates interleaved among the 800 MHz public safety frequencies in many areas of North America. I know, because they are a cause of major interference with the 800 MHz trunked radio system the Fire and EMS uses in our city.The interference issue aside, the Nextel service is not your typicalland mobile service. The infrastructure is of a cellular nature, withtheir own MSO's. Nextel has the ability to carry long distance landline phone calls. While yes the frequencies are in the 800 band, thatdoes not distract from the point that nextel does have cellular typeservice, and it is all digital. And as it is, Nextel was the firstcarrier in the nation to offer data transfers via the handset.Now all the other carriers are trying to play catch up, and offerdispatch type services. From what I am hearing, the technology theyplan on using with the seconds delay it takes to establish thedispatch call will never fly. They are, and always will be, a land mobile radio service with a telephone keypad attached.Nope. But do keep your head buried. Rodgers Platt
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