Sprint Nextel Services Continuance Info

As customer of Sprint or Nextel you will not notice a change rightaway in their services or plans. The new combination indicates that customers’ plans or contracts won’t change and that operations - on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network and Nextel's Nationwide Digital Network, including the wireless data and consumer services Sprint customers expect as well as the Nextel Direct Connect® walkie-talkie service - will be much the same as when the companies were separate.

The new company indicates that they plan to explore ways to include the Nextel Direct Connect and Sprint Ready Link walkie-talkie technologies in one device. But for now, customers using one type of service will not be able to push-to-talk with someone using the other service.
Nextel customers will continue to use the Nextel Direct Connect® walkie-talkie service on the Nextel National Network.

Sprint and Nextel have different wireless network technologies. Sprint uses CDMA, (Code Division Multiple Access) and Nextel uses iDEN (Motorola's Integrated Digital Enhanced Network).
Sprint Nextel says that customers will not be forced from one network to the other, and that they will continue to support the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network as well as Nextel's Nationwide Digital Network.

Store product integration.
The new company expects that some former Nextel stores may carry some Sprint PCS products and some former Sprint stores may carry some Nextel products. Also, RadioShack probably will begin carrying Nextel products in the fall of 2005. Sprint is a long-term wireless provider for RadioShack in its stores nationwide.

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