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 ...

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.

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 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, ...

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

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — Imagine a walkie-talkie whose range is so wide it reaches halfway around the world. Seem far-fetched? That’s what a new software program for cell phones promises — and, for the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phonescoop Editors: Please use "DIRECT CONNECT", not "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 ...