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Why don't we have push-to-talk on every Android and iPhone in 2017?
by raldi 9y ago
Why don't we have push-to-talk on every Android and iPhone in 2017?
- blhack 9y agoBecause it was all replaced with a software implementation of it that wasn't as good, which soured people against the idea.
- raldi 9y agoWhat are you referring to?
- csours 9y agoPush to talk by Nextel had it's own allocated bandwidth. Bandwidth = MONEY, so they shut down PTT and sold the bandwidth. In the manufacturing plant where I worked, we went from being almost able to understand people on Nextel PTT to completely unable to understand people with the software implementation. The plant has since switched to local walkie talkies with repeaters - with Nextel you could easily start chatting with anyone else on the network, pretty much anywhere.
- blhack 9y agoCsours explained it. For a while, when nextel disappeared and the PTT bandwidth got reallocated, the other carriers tried to sell "PTT" as well, but it was contained in an app like Zello (or their own proprietary app). Old Nextel PTT phones had dedicated hardware buttons specifically for it. So you didnt' have to unlock a phone, find the app, open it, etc. Your phone was a walkie talkie.
- microcolonel 9y agoBecause Nextel became Sprint, and Androids and iPhones are PCs with a telephone modem in them, not telephones with an app platform in them. Telephony has clearly taken a back seat, when's the last time you even heard a layman about "call quality"?