What Happened to Nextel Phones: A Deep Dive
Quick Answer: What Happened to Nextel? Nextel shut down its iDEN network on June 30, 2013. Sprint acquired the company back in 2005 for $35 billion, but the proprietary Motorola iDEN technology that powered Nextel’s famous push-to-talk feature couldn’t be upgraded to 4G LTE. Sprint pulled the plug and repurposed the 800MHz spectrum for its … Read more

