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Verizon Rolling Out Nextel-Like PTT Service
aberson writes "Verizon Wireless announced today that it is rolling out a PTT (push to talk) phone service, targetted at business customers. They claim better coverage, 'presence' (away/available), and wireless web for about $10 more than Nextel and $10 more than a non-PTT Verizon plan. Pricing doesn't mention how 'high-speed' data will roll into this (which you can't get on Nextel), but you are using the CDMA2000 network to essentially do VoIP. If only it could be something cross-networkable like Sonim. Just wait a few months for the other carriers to catch up and cellular number portability to be enforced. Ironically, you can only get it on a Motorola made phone. Also, Verizon seems to be not caring about Nextel trying to copyright a generic technical term."
Sweet, maybe this will inspire Nextel to start offering phones designed in the 21st century.
Life in Orange County
BEEP - Can you hear me now?
BEEP - Yes.
[Verizon guy takes 2 steps]
BEEP - Can you hear me now?
BEEP - Yes.
Continue ad infinitum
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Imagine, if you will, sitting in a car with a hot member of the opposite sex...Okay, make that just a member of the opposite sex, since this is /.
Things are going well...VERY well. And then, with no warning, your phone makes a little BRRREEP noise, and a voice says LOUDLY, "Hey man, you get any on that date tonight?"
This is a technology that has few practical applications, and offers a whole WORLD of annoying possibilities.
Just my opinion.
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PPT Also enables your everyday life to sound like something from COPS.
Over and out.
Dear sweet Bob, no! I used to live in Ocoee, a western suburb of Orlando, Florida. "West Orange," as the area was known, was home to a disproportionately large number of people who worked in the building and construction trades. EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY, had a brick-sized Nextel permanently grafted to their hips; they were called "West Orange County passports" among some in the area. You know the frustration experienced by those who have to put up with yuppies and loud cell phone calls in public? Well, jack it up a couple of orders of magnitude higher in West Orange County. In stores, restaurants, coffee houses, anywhere, you couldn't go more than five minutes without hearing "BREEEEEEP! blah blah drywall blah blah Bobcat blah blah Sunbelt rentals blah blah framing inspectors BREEEEEEEP!" Yes, even at the movie theater, blue collar bubbas would be droning on about pouring concrete, and NOBODY CARED. Why? Everybody else was armed with a West Orange County passport. BREEEEEEEEP!