Affordable Message Center announced a new pricing plan and a new e-mail service to complement its Simplicity e-mail service. The AMC One Rate Pricing charges resellers for usage without requiring message plans by instituting a 25-cent per-call price per pager activated on the AMC network with a one-time activation fee of $5 the first month. Each pager would have a 50-page limit. The new e-mail service will allow subscribers to receive alphanumeric messages via an e-mail address at AMC’s center. Senders deploy an e-mail message, which AMC receives and routes to the appropriate subscriber’s pager.
Brightpoint Inc. is expanding its North American wireless accessories business with the proposed acquisition of Wireless Stockroom L.L.C. and the hiring of Robert Schumacher, who will manage a newly created North American accessories division of Brightpoint, said the company. Brightpoint has signed a letter of intent for the acquisition and a definitive binding agreement is expected before March 31. Through the new division, Brightpoint plans to offer turnkey accessories programs to assist network operators with bringing market accessories to wireless users, said the company. Schumacher will be president of the division, based in Los Angeles.
Northern Telecom Ltd. announced the sale of the 10 millionth Nortel Norstar telephone. A representative of Walgreen Co., the national drugstore chain and 10-year Norstar customer, was presented with the 10-millionth phone in a ceremony held via satellite link between Nortel’s facility in Dallas and Walgreen’s headquarters in Deerfield, Ill. The phone, an M7310, includes 10 programmable dual-function memory buttons that provide access to 24 additional frequently used features or autodial numbers.
IFR Systems Inc. announced its radio-frequency division attained International Standards Organization 9001 certification for the design, manufacture, sale and service of instrumentation and associated application software. The company’s products are used in the wireless communications, avionics and test-and-measurement industries. All of IFR’s operations in the United States and United Kingdom are now ISO certified, said Friedel E. Arnold, vice president and general manager of IFR’s RF division.
