With Sprint now controling Nextel they have decided to officially end the, what I thought, a succesful trial.
It was known that they were also testing other technologies, including EV-DO, though, without as much fanfare. Nextel even admitted in the fall that the North Carolina Flarion trial had gone past the stage of being a technology trial, to a marketing trial, making many believe an official deal with Flarion was imminent.
Then came Sprint. As soon as Sprint and Nextel agreed to merge, people expected the talk of Nextel using Flarion to disappear quickly. Sprint was already hard at work deploying EV-DO, and it seemed likely that Nextel would leave Flarion behind and eventually move its own iDen customers to the combined EV-DO network once the two companies merged.
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