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TECH: Sprint and Verizon join Nextel in "push to talk" service, instant messaging out loud...
...having to dial all those numbers, users can chat with each other walkie-talkie style, coast to coast. To initiate a conversation, you press a button on the side of your phone, which sends an attention-getting chirp to your buddy's phone. In recent weeks, Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless have introduced their own push-to-talk phones...
Aiming its Ready Link push-to-talk service at Generation Y, Sprint has launched three Sanyo handsets, including the rugged RL2000 ($300) and the video-camera-equipped VM4500 ($380). Playing Cyclops to Sprint's Wolverine, Verizon put out the conservative Motorola V60p ($150), a modified two-year-old executive model with a tiny black-and-white screen...
Sprint and Verizon have improved on Nextel's design in at least one way. Both separate push-to-talk contacts from regular phone-book entries. To start a chat on Nextel's service, you need to sort through your phone book until you find your push-to-talk buddy. With Sprint and Verizon, a tap of the side talk button brings up your push-to-talk buddies and groups...
...long-distance bill 70%--some of that lost revenue can probably be regained over the long term through value-added services that the voice-data combination is just beginning to make possible. For that reason, most of the major phone companies--AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest Communications, Sprint and Verizon--have already announced a VOIP offering of some sort. They too are responding to upstarts like end-to-end IP service provider GoBeam, based in Pleasanton, Calif. Ultimately, residential customers will reap some of the same rewards...