Nextel Direct Connect Service

Nextel Direct Connect service is the digital two way radio built in each Nextel phone. I guess this is why Nextel claim that non of the other unlocked phone might not work in their network. But this is not exactly.The a360 can work but the only thing is that the straight connect feature might not work at all since it will not be installed on your mobile phone. All you must need to do is to alter the SIM as well as the phone must lock into their network as long as the phone is unlocked to one more network.

Though if you really desire to join the Nextel network service then you must purchase a phone from them since it stand right now; you be apt to save more on calls by using their copyrighted feature named direct connect.

But the thing is that it is your option as to what you desire to do because the mobile phone will function once the SIM is switched other than the direct connect feature might not work at all because the software or hardware is not installed on your mobile phone.

Here is a few general information. A SIM card is a generally designed card. By that it has one intend that makes it worldwide in that it can fit in any SIM card slit in any phone. if it fits, it ought to work right?? That is wrong.

The Networks often lock their mobile phones into their network. So now if buy a mobile phone from AT&T, then that mobile phone will be locked to their particular network. In the identical way if you buy a phone from Nextel then that mobile phone will be locked into Nextel network.

So as you can now imagine, it is the mobile phones that are locked into their valued networks. If you were to purchase a AT&T mobile phone plus try inserting a Nextel SIM then it might not be able to fit into the network of nextel, as the phone is locked to the AT&T network.

In the similar way if you have more than say one phone then that is locked into the similar network just like Nextel, then you can also change the SIM cards amid them as well as they will work very fine because they are all linked to the similar network.