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 ...

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

Nextel Communications Inc. is the scrawny kid who grew up to become a scrappy fighter. "A couple of years ago, I think people said, 'These guys don't have a chance. They have a funky technology, a ...

Mobile service provider Nextel Communications Inc. said Tuesday it expanded its service to let walkie-talkie users in Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Peru talk to its subscribers in the United States.

Nextel Communications Inc., Reston, Va., has launched its new Group Connect service, which enables instant group walkie-talkie conversations nationwide. According to the Nextel release, the Group ...

Sprint today also announced that it will launch CDMA handsets with Nextel Direct Connect early next year. This is not a hybrid CDMA / iDEN technology, but rather a compatible Push To Talk technology ...

Developed by Motorola, the technology turns cell phones into walkie-talkies by connecting to other phones without dialing and within just a few seconds. The cell phone network gear used for the ...

Nextel is now owned by Sprint, which is pulling the plug on June 30. But a Bay Area start-up is hoping to scoop up some of Nextel's customers. Nextel was the first phone to act like a walkie-talkie, ...

To the editors of Phonescoop: Even though Sprint itself is stupid enough to do it, please don't use the term "walkie talkie" to describe a nationwide & international direct connect radio system that ...

Nextel Communications' Direct Connect push-to-talk voice service is now available between the U.S. and Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Peru under a new partnership agreement with NII Holdings and TELUS ...