Sprint announced on Wednesday the availability of its new Direct Connect Now Android app, which brings push-to-talk capabilities to the Kyocera Rise and LG Optimus Elite with support for other devices ...

Nextel today announced the availability of the first phase of its Nationwide Direct Connect™ service in a number of major markets. The service is now available in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, ...

Nextel today announced that their coverage and Nationwide Direct Connect(SM) service now extends internationally to the northern region of Baja California, Mexico. Nextel and Nextel Mexico customers ...

Anyone know if 2010 is the final date for iDEN service going away? So far Direct Connect is the best two way system out there and from what I heard Sprints version sucks with the long latencey etc..

Sprint Nextel Corp. announced today a new custom-pricing plan for business customers on its Nextel Direct Connect service, which is designed to bundle messaging and other tools used heavily by ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Sprint Nextel has certainly worked to redefine its marketing strategy in the post-merger ...

Nextel, a business-oriented wireless phone service, has extended its "Nationwide Direct Connect" feature to the Buffalo area, allowing walkie-talkie style calls nationwide. Direct Connect allows ...

Sprint Nextel is extending the push-to-talk capability of its Nextel handsets so subscribers can send voicemail messages to e-mail addresses along with detailed information about their locations. The ...

NEW YORK -- Sprint Nextel Corp. will start shutting down the Nextel part of its network in little more than a year. So what are the folks who use Nextel's walkie-talkie-like push-to-talk function ...

We're guessing that this isn't the riveting Q4 announcement that Dan Hesse promised us last week at Sprint's Kansas headquarters, but it's a shock to the system nonetheless. The outfit's legacy iDEN ...