Glenayre Technologies Inc. installed its Modular Voice Processing system for PennSel Communication Services, a division of R.F. Communications. PennSel will offer MVP services to its customers in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, the company said. The MVP system provides paging users with voice and fax messaging, message waiting notification and the ability to make outbound calls from the voice mailbox.
U.S. Paging Services Inc., a subsidiary of USCI Inc., has signed an agreement with QVC Inc. to include pagers and cellular phones in QVC’s electronic retail programs. QVC began offering the devices earlier this month.
Kelcom and Sky Communications Inc. have agreed to merge their two-way land mobile, paging and telemessaging businesses. The new operation, doing business under the Kelcom name, will be the largest privately owned wireless communications company in southwestern Ontario, the company said.
Microcell Solutions Inc. plans to purchase PCS 1900 mobile phones and accessories from Nokia Corp. Microcell will use the equipment in its national personal communications services network, which it plans to launch in Montreal in the fourth quarter of this year and in four other Canadian cities by mid-1997. Shipments will begin this year and continue through 1997.
Subscriber Computing Inc. will provide its integrated customer management and billing system named Communications Resource Manager to Cable & Wireless Inc., according to a three-year agreement. Cable & Wireless will offer combined billing for long-distance customers who also use paging and cellular services. Cable & Wireless is using the system to support the recent launch of its Business First Paging, and will use it in its Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh cellular markets during the second phase of the contract.
Tellabs Inc., a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, said its sales and earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 27 were the highest in the company’s history. The company’s net income for the third quarter totaled $46.1 million, up 68 percent from last year’s third quarter net income of $27.4 million. However, the company said net income for the first three quarters of this year was $58.6 million, down 24 percent from $77.5 million last year. The company attributed the drop to a one-time research and development write-off associated with the company’s acquisition of Steinbrecher Corp. during the second quarter.
IDB Mobile Communications Corp. introduced a new pricing structure Oct. 1, lowering rates for all maritime users of International Mobile Satellite Organization-based satellite communications services. The lower rates are a combination of two of the company’s plans.
