Clearing Up Verizon & QChat

As you may have read, in past articles we noted (in multiple articles) that Verizon was going with QChat-style technology for its Push To Talk platform. We did note that a refreshed BREWChat was a possibility. Of course, since then it has come clear that Verizon is using Motorola’s new PTT platform.

We didn’t clear the air on that, so now we will.

Essentially, Motorola was able to come up with their answer to QChat… by reverse engineering QChat. Motorola was hand-picked by Sprint Nextel to have first-look at QChat technology. And, with the iDEN team being the world experts on cellular PTT… reverse engineering QChat wasn’t so hard.

That is why there is so much confusion, and no, we really couldn’t piece the puzzle together before it all launched. Granted, we probably could have fingered Motorola sooner, but we wanted to give as accurate a picture as possible.

So, yes, Verizon is using technology stolen based on QChat. It was just that Motorola put it together, and reverse-engineered it.

This also puts Motorola in a powerful position. As being backers of both LTE and WiMAX… Motorola now has PTT expertise that they can put to use in both platforms. And, the Harmony (iDEN) team can rest assured, knowing that’s very good job security.