[Geowanking] Verizon Location Services Walled Garden

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Kevin Elliott wrote:

>
>> I think I mentioned this before, but, Sprint's people have said their 
>> piece, also
>> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177110&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=14770759 
>> 
>> Sadly if I want EVDO these are my choices.
>
> Doesn't Sprint/Nextel have an EVDO or HSDPA equivalent?

I find no evidence that the Nextel network does. However, even if it did, 
they don't seem to have a PDA that uses it anyway; I carry a Treo 700p 
(and before that a 650, a 600, and a 300 as the last 3 devices) and 
effective with the PRL update I took an hour ago, data roaming to Verizon 
(1xRTT only, not EVDO, but still...) is enabled, there's no way a Nextel 
data service would be as useful as that. I have to keep carrying a 
bluetooth GPS... for now.