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Fact …. AT&T management and maintenance employees at the Birmingham AT&T Data Center use Nextel Direct Connect.  

 

 

Saw it with my own eyes this weekend.  Had a call for an emergancy back-flow problem at the Data Center this past week-end.  In the 18 hours I was there,  I saw 4 upper management and 10 maintenance employees all working for AT&T carrying, what I would assume, company issued  Motorola 580′s with Nextel service along with their AT&T phone.

 

When I asked the head of maintenance about it, he said they tried AT&T’s push to talk, but they couldn’t get it to work inside their building.  They do however, plan on switching to regular walkie talkies in the future.  LOL

 

Just thought I would share that fun story with you.

 

 

 

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SOURCE: Associated Press http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_BOOST_TEXTING_PROBLEMS?SITE=VTBEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

 

A few interesting excerpts from the AP article:

 

"There’s a huge deficiency in the text messaging and multimedia messaging," said John Kim, an independent dealer who has a Boost Mobile store in the Dallas area. He warns new customers about the problems, and tests the system by sending himself text messages. I got five text messages at 4 o’clock in the morning that I sent myself nine hours before, he said.

He’s been signing up 10 to 12 new customers a day on the plan, three or four times the number that came in before the Boost Unlimited plan was introduced in January. But a lot of them come back, "very irritated" about the text messaging problems, he said."

 

and:

 

"The popularity of Boost Mobile caught us off guard. It overwhelmed our system," he said. The company has been working "day and night" to fix the problems, and aims to have the system "much improved" by next week, Votava said.

Analysts expect Sprint to report Monday that Boost attracted somewhere around half a million subscribers in the first quarter, which would be a rare piece of good news for the company. The additions from Boost are not expected to outnumber defections from Sprint as a whole, however."

 

and some good news about PTT and cellular call performance:

 

"Despite the texting problems, it seems most Boost subscribers aren’t giving up. In North Carolina, Michael said calls and the push-to-talk function have worked flawlessly.

 

Bryan Scheiber in Grosse Ile, Mich., signed up for Boost Unlimited in February, and has been mostly happy with it. The call quality is better than on his previous carrier, AT&T Inc., he said. He’s woken up to find four text messages that were sent to him the previous day, but he’s not a big texter.

 

"For the price," he said, "you can’t complain."