Cingular Wireless on Monday will launch a push-to-talk cell phone service, becoming the latest company to challenge Nextel's walkie-talkie-like technology. To date, no national carrier has ...

In the fierce battle among wireless phone companies, Nextel Communications Inc. has had one unique advantage: its walkie-talkie phones. The dual-use phones are especially popular with construction ...

Any child who has played with walkie-talkies knows that conversations on two-way radios don't resemble the kind we have on mobile phones. Mainly because only one person can talk at a time ...

The wireless phone provider's focus on business spills over into the consumer market. ... Nextel's Walkie-Talkie Grows Up. By Phil Wohl – Updated Nov 16, 2016 at 4:35PM ...

Nextel naturally has more of these phones to choose from. We found nine different Direct Connect-capable devices on the Nextel Web site and tested one of the newest models, the $299 Motorola i730 ...

Available through the Sprint Nextel network, the Motorola i580 provides Sprint's unmatched Nextel Walkie-Talkie capabilities, allowing for instant one-on-one, group and off-network communication ...

Cingular Wireless on Monday introduced a walkie-talkie feature for its wireless phones, a challenge to Sprint Nextel Corp.'s dominance in that arena. The Business Journals Select a City ...

NEW YORK -- Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday said it will shut down the Nextel network as early as June 30 next year, cutting off service for its characteristic walkie-talkie-like Nextel phones ...

Nostalgic for that Nextel push-to-talk capability? Sprint brings the feature back through a free app that works with select Android phones, including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and LG G2.

I never had a walkie talkie phone, but I sure saw a lot of Nextel commercials and Sprint still offers push-to-talk even though the original Nextel network is apparently getting the ax on June 30 ...

AT&T announced today that it is launching a trial program to test out its enhanced push-to-talk services (PTT), which aims to improve communication between work groups in the mobile field service ...

Nextel Communications Inc.'s U.S. subscribers can now use the mobile-phone company's popular walkie-talkie feature to talk to people in Canada and three Latin American countries. International ...