Sprint chooses Qualcomm’s PTT for EV-DO Rev. A walkie-talkies
Here I thought EV-DO Rev. A would just bring us faster wireless upload speeds, but Sprint will be using it in 2008 to optimize their PTT services. PTT, or push-to-talk, is the walkie-talkie-like service you see and hear on so many Nextel (now Sprint) phones. Sprint announced yesterday that they’ve settled on a PTT solution from Qualcomm called "Q-chat" which will bridge the PTT gap between the old Nextel and the new Sprint infrastructure. Using the Q-Chat solution, PTT will be enabled between the two networks making for one happy (and chatty) Sprint network family, as in "together with Nextel". Personally, I can’t make out what any of these PTT folks are saying, but maybe it’s just me. Anyone use PTT here?
Yes we use PTT in IT…..ALOT. Nextels suck as phones though. They are like Verizon was about 5 years ago….they never get the cool phones.