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Verizon's BlackBerry Tour Gains PTT Powers

Mar 29, 2010, 7:31 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Mar 29, 2010, 8:28 AM

Today Verizon Wireless announced that its will begin offering a push-to-talk application to the BlackBerry Tour 9630 starting on March 30. Interested customers will need to contact Verizon Wireless to have the service added to their plan. Then they'll be able to download the application that makes it work. The application will let BlackBerry Tour users initiate and participate in group calls with up to 50 participants and check colleagues’ availability with the Presence feature. End users' devices will have a single phone number for both voice and PTT calls. PTT services are available on a handful of devices from Verizon. Verizon noted that Motorola is helping it provide the application and technology to make PTT possible on its handsets. The service typically costs $5 per month, but will be free to new BlackBerry users who sign up during the promotion. It is available to devices that use both Research In Motion's BIS (consumers) and BES (business users) services.

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erikclarke

Mar 29, 2010, 9:21 AM

What would really be useful, would be if Sprint uses this type of software to...

communicate with Nextel phones! Now THAT would really be useful.

flip mode

That would be impossible friend...verizon is a CDMA network and nextel is iDEN and the technologies are incompatible, that is why sprint's marriage with nextel was such an epic fail.

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CustomersAreRubbish

They can communicate with Nextel phones! Over PSTN calls, SMS and MMS messages, that is 🙂

With two exceptions -- hybrid phones (CDMA and iDEN radios) from the icX02 series, and the QCHAT "Nextel Direct Connect on Sprint" phones which have been dis...
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glinc

Mar 29, 2010, 9:20 AM

Useless.

VZW PTT is useless. Don't even know why they try so hard in pushing this product.

Had 30 people switch from nextel for VZW PTT because it was cheaper than nextel group talk add-on and within 30 days they went back to nextel.

VZW611LA

I am not getting more and more people coming over from Nextel switching to Verizon PTT. They all say they like it. Field Force Manager is also something like like. Nextel has gone to crap sense Sprint took over. The coverage is spotty and the internet...
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