Product Review: Sprint Together with Nextel

Two years ago it started innocently enough, my husband was in love with the walkie-talkie feature of the Nextel phones. Our contract was up with another carrier. So, we thought we’d switch. 

At first everything seemed great. As the first year of our two year contract came to a close we started to notice suitable changes. It was right around the time that Sprint merged with Nextel. We started noticing that the sound quality of our phones was starting to decline and we had more dropped calls then usual. We thought maybe something was wrong with our phones. Even though a year ago our phones were one of the latest models on the market. 

We took our phones to the local service center to see if something was wrong. They gave our phones a clean bill of health. We started looking at some of the new models on the market and considered upgrading until we were told we would have to sign a new two year contract if we upgraded. Discouraged we decided to stay with our phones with poor sound quality and poor signal strength. 

We waited out the second year of our two year contract. To pass the time we looked at other companies and phones. Dreaming of a life of good cell phone sound quality and few dropped calls. 

The glorious day finally arrived, the day we finally got rid of our Nextel phones! Of course Nextel had to make if difficult for us. When we had switched to Nextel originally our old carrier was very nice and even on a Sunday evening released our numbers to Nextel within two hours of us switching over. Not the case this time.