Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 22:25:16 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Kenny Lussier <klussier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sprint is a mix of both CDMA and PCS. In not sure what their Nextel phones
> are using these days.

  I think PCS is/was Sprint's brand name for a GSM-based offering,
which they've since discontinued.  They're now a strictly
IS-95/IS-2000 ("CDMA") and LTE operator.

  Nextel used iDEN, a Motorola technology that didn't work with
anything else.  After Sprint bought them, they eventually began
shutting down their iDEN network.  There are prolly some towers left,
but in this area, service started to become completely unreliable
around the end of 2012.  All their new PTT phones are IS-2000 and/or
LTE.

-- Ben


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