NEW YORK-Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., said it began earlier this month in Las Vegas the commercial
rollout of a new voice paging service it plans to offer in 100 North American markets by year’s end.
The
“CUEVoice” messaging service also will include text paging and e-mail alerts. Teknow Inc., Phoenix, is
supplying the voice paging terminals.
“For capacity reasons, paging companies have been forced to abandon
voice paging,” said Gordon Kaiser, chairman and chief executive officer of Cue. “Our new voice paging
service fills a major gap in paging company offerings.”
Cue said it operates the world’s largest radio network
providing nationwide, regional and local messaging over FM subcarrier facilities of more than 600 radio stations. Its
network covers more than 90 percent of the population of Canada and the United States.
Cue said its CUEVoice
service is the first to provide voice paging over a high-speed FM subcarrier network.
The company said it will
market the service to its existing distributors and to local paging companies. Its resellers include AT&T Wireless
Services Inc., Ameritech Corp., MobileMedia Corp., Arch Communications Group Inc., Teletouch, SkyTel
Communications Inc. and Clarion Corp. of America.
The Cue network also distributes real-time, route-specific
traffic information and e-mails in major North American markets to Microsoft Corp. Windows CE handheld devices
and the new Microsoft Auto PC. The first of the Auto PC platforms, the Clarion Auto PC, began shipping this month
with the Cue AutoFM receiver module.
