BROWSING: AMS

American Messaging Systems Inc. is entering the two-way market with an alternative to ReFLEX that provides high system capacity, quick time to market and helps carriers cut costs, said the company.AMS is an equal joint venture of Minneapolis-based American Paging and Nexus Telecommunications Systems...

Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service."Everyone has a different edge or weakness" when it comes to price, coverage, technology and features, said Bukasa...

FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems has introduced what it says is the first Internet-based customer care and billing tool for telecommunications companies.AMS said its UNIView application links a carrier's World Wide Web site to its back-end databases to provide key account and service information to...

FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems, a business and information technology consulting firm, announced an $8.5 million agreement to develop a comprehensive customer care and billing platform to support Canadian-based Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s new personal communications services offering.Under the terms of the agreement, AMS will provide...

Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...

Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion of their businesses.CBIS said it has opened a data center in Orlando, Fla., that will provide the infrastructure, processes, methods...

Tessco Technologies Inc. said it has acquired Cincinnati-based Cartwright Communications for cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The transaction is valued at $3.8 million plus the net value of inventory, receivables and payables. Cartwright is a value-added distributor of radio communications equipment serving...

GENEVA-AirTouch Communications Inc. has teamed with American Management Systems and Sun Microsystems Computer Co. to deliver a customer care system, the companies announced.The new system allows cellular customers to access an exact image of their hard copy phone bill or other information via fax...

CommNet Cellular Inc. said it has successfully concluded its call for redemption of its 6.75 percent convertible subordinated debentures. Of $74.7 million aggregate principal amount of the debentures outstanding, $41.9 million were redeemed and the balance of $32.9 million was converted into shares of...

RUTHERFORD, N.J.-A definitive merger agreement between Nextel Communications Inc. and American Mobile Systems Inc. replaces a previously announced stock purchase agreement between the companies.Terms of the tax-free merger dictate each AMS share not currently held by Nextel be exchanged for .62 of a share...

RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. and American Mobile Systems Inc. have entered into an agreement to merge operations, Nextel said.Plans call for the entire, fully-diluted equity interest in AMS to be exchanged for an aggregate of 3,700,000 shares of Nextel Class A Common Stock, or...