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Nextel Broadband: Take Two?

Posted by timothy on from the future-unevenly-distributed dept.

Atryn writes "Many of you may recall the Nextel broadband trial of Flarion's Flash-OFDM Technology in Raleigh, N.C. last year. They have since shut down that trial. Now, Nextel has announced a new broadband trial of UMTS TD-CDMA in Washington, D.C. for this fall. Other coverage here and company press releases from Nextel and IP Wireless."

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  1. 0 to /.ed by NIK282000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Before any post are made. I hope this isnt repersentitive of their service.

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  2. Re:Broadband over CDMA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful
    Just out of curiosity, how is the parent offtopic?

    Because a lot of mods have an itchy clicking finger and they assume they know more than they do.

  3. Nextel is dead... by Mindragon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They were "merged" with Sprint. Sprint is already going with EV-DO (like Verizon) for everything...Sprint is the "parent" company of the merger so I wouldn't be betting on anything from Nextel for a while...

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  4. Re:Nextel? More like Previoustel hur hur. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    The phone I got a little over a year ago has a monochrome screen, and no Java support. Go Nextel.
    Wow, slashdot users can be finicky. Whenever a new phone announcement gets posted its all "why can't they just have simple phones that don't do all this fancy stuff??!!?". But here a carrier is being criticized for having such a phone.

    FYI -- Nextel was the first US Carrier to launch J2ME phones. We have had color screen java phones on the market for about 3 years. Just because you didn't buy one doesn't mean the carrier is "behind in technology"... Look in the mirror!