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Motorola specializes in digital wireless technology called iDEN, which powers Nextel's push-to-talk phones, whereas Sprint's wireless network relies on the CDMA standard.

Reston, Virginia-based NII Holdings, whose predecessor Nextel Communications pioneered the push-to-talk cellphone in the 1990s, has filed a petition for dissolution of its business.

“It’s the same idea as Nextel push-to-talk, but it’s an app instead of a flip phone,” says Bill Moore, Zello CEO. “"Emails and texts have squeezed voice communication out of our lives.

Microsoft says it will add push-to-talk features to Microsoft Teams with Walkie Talkie, one of several new Teams features for front-line workers like cashiers.

Sprint’s promises that it would implement a copycat version of Nextel’s popular push to talk technology on its 1xEV-DO Rev A platform also went nowhere.

Nextel — the other name behind the 2005 merger that bedeviled Sprint — is making a comeback alongside Tender Vittles, Tidy Wipes, Hai Karate and Drixoral.

pdvWIRELESS' leaders aim to take what they learned from Nextel and use it to tap into the void left in the market when Sprint decommissioned the Nextel network in 2013.

The evolution of voice communications from radio to full-featured dispatch applications with IP-based PTT communications shows that the options for talking to drivers is more efficient than ever.

Sprint Corp. is selling back spectrum tied to its defunct push-to-talk network to a company led by the co-founders of Nextel Communications.

Nextel popularized the walkie-talkie style push-to-talk communications concept well over a decade ago. The technology found a heavy following in the business world but ultimately fizzled out ...

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.