Problem with CIngulars PTT Plan
Cingular's PTT plan isn't going to work. It worked great for nextel because all of their phones support it and I think there is no monthly subscription. If onlly 2 phone support it and there is a $10.00 monthly fee not many people will have it and it will just fizzle out like verizon and sprint
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it's not going to have an immediate impact. what will happen is small businesses will start to use it, and when other businesses they deal with see how the coverage is better or the feature set is nicer, it will begin to spread. it will most likely never take the place of nextel, but i see it being a nice #2 PTT service to nextel's
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I imagine all our phones will support it in the future, but you've got to start somewhere, and test the waters so to speak.
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While there are a few technical advantages of Cingular's flavor of PTT, sych as the ability to convert a PTT call to a normal call, I wonder how they plan on actually making money with this? Yeah, the plans are $10, but compare that with what a few other providers charge and it's nothing really new. If you already have unlimited mobile-to-moble and your phones work as speaker-phones, why in the world would you pay $20 (because BOTH lines have to have the feature, do't you know!) to get PTT? Is that "chirp-chirp" really worth it?
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with Mobile to mobile, you can't call 10 people at once, you have to call them all individually. there's one time saving advantage.
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it's starting with 2 phones, 4 more by christmas, and another 4 1Q2006... they are coming. And of course the infamous v551 is getting another model older and the v557 will feature PTT. Wonder if we'll still carry the V551...
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The main problem with just having MTM is the type of phones Cingular offers. I have yet to find a Cingular phone that you can just open the speaker, press a button or two, and call someone. And you need to be able to do this with a flip phone that is closed. You also need the ability to answer it via speaker without opening a flip phone or in the case of a bar type, press one button to answer via speaker. With every Cingular phone I know of, you must either open the flip, answer the call and then you can put on the speaker. With the bar type, you still have to answer the call first before engaging the speaker. With PTT, at least with the Nextel and Sprint phones that use PTT, you have one button access to answer calls via speaker and m...
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