Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Nextel was purchased by Sprint. Sometime later, they started marketing Boost Mobile as a prepaid service that had PTT. I don't know if they used iDEN or not. Not that it makes a lot of difference.


I think I knew that. Sprint screwed me royally once, so I left Nextel when Sprint took over. I went to LA Cellular, which was bought by ATT, who also screwed me royally once, so now I've got Verizon.

I thought "Boost Mobile" was a really strange marketing ploy. They used gangs in the TV ads and "Boost" is slang for stealing...

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Also, I never intended to say that Nextel/Motorola PTT never used the cellular network, only that it didn't have to.


I didn't mean to argue the point, only to say that our service used the cell net. Motorola was the manufacturer of all the radio equipment we used before Nextel.