In an unprecedented show of cooperation, Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. joined forces to promote ReFLEX paging systems in the Asia Pacific, organizing the ReFLEX Technology Symposium '98 held last month in Beijing and Bangkok, Thailand.The symposium drew representatives from more than 300...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Integrated Network Group announced its modular voice processing system is being used by Motorola Inc.'s Ground Systems Division to deploy voice messaging and other enhanced services for the Iridium L.L.C. gateway network.The Glenayre MVP system has been installed in all...
For some time, the paging industry has looked to information services as one possible means to increase revenue, but several technological obstacles have restricted the level of customization required for such services to offer real value.Last week, those obstacles were cleared when 11 paging...
It's been more than a year since Glenayre Technologies Inc. first announced its intention to divest the Western Multiplex microwave business unit, yet the company continues to search for a buyer.Glenayre officially put the microwave business on the block in September 1997, the same...
ITAThe Industrial Telecommunications Association said it appointed Laura Leigh Smith executive director, government relations. She formerly was deputy division chief (legal) in the public safety and private wireless division of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Smith will be responsible for representing interests...
Metrocall Inc. and PageMart Wireless Inc. have entered a five-year strategic alliance that is part resale agreement, part shared network buildout relationship.In the first phase of the alliance, to begin immediately, Metrocall plans to resell PageMart's advanced messaging services in areas where PageMart's narrowband...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Citing world market uncertainty, Glenayre Technologies Inc. reported plans to reduce its global work force by 10 percent and move its Boston operations to its Atlanta facility."Despite the economic uncertainties we face, we believe that we are taking the most appropriate measures to...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced plans to add prepaid products from the Integrated Network Group of Glenayre Technologies Inc. to its line of cellular network equipment. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.The combination of Glenayre's modular voice processing system with...
ORLANDO, Fla.-In an effort to move from a provider of mere product to that of end-to-end solutions, Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced at PCS '98 an enhanced services platform designed to help paging carriers offer higher-cost services to customers.Lee Ellison, vice president of worldwide sales...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it has begun a new advertising campaign touting its guaranteed messaging service, SkyWord Plus, and at the same time is introducing the new AccessLink II two-way pager from Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group.The new campaign targets nationwide travelers,...
AirNet Communications Corp. announced it has received a $17 million contract to supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Message Express Co., owner of two Michigan basic trading areas. The contract calls for AirNet to provide a complete Global System for...
SINGAPORE-Given that Singapore's paging market is close to saturation with a 43-percent penetration rate, it comes as no surprise that paging operators in the market constantly are on the lookout for innovative ways to serve up new offerings to their customers. The latest dish...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it purchased a narrowband personal communications services license from AT&T Two-Way Messaging Communications Inc. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.TSR's acquisition of the AT&T license combined with its earlier acquisition of American Paging gives the company...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division introduced two new services last week-a guaranteed delivery service and a nationwide paging alternative.The first, called AlphaTrack, is a guaranteed-messaging service reselling SkyTel Communications Inc.'s ReFLEX 50 network airtime. This is the second major resale agreement for...
OmnipointOmnipoint Communications Inc. introduced its Option Snap-On terminal adapter that connects a 3Com Corp. personal digital assistant to a digital data-ready Global System for Mobile communications phone, allowing users to browse the Internet and send and receive e-mail. Selling for about $200, the Snap-On...
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced an aggressive rollout schedule for its facilities-based ReFLEX 25 guaranteed messaging service, with commercial service planned for areas of 15 additional states in August as well as expansions in the inaugural state of Texas.States expected to have service this month...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its second-quarter results were affected by an unexpected drop in sales and manufacturing problems.Net income was reported at $77,000, or 0 cents per share, down from $14.9 million, or 22 cents per share, last year.Net sales fell 26 percent...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-MobileMedia Communications Corp. awarded Glenayre Technologies Inc. a $2.2 million contract to provide receiver equipment for its nationwide narrowband personal communications network upgrade.Also, MobileMedia formed an agreement with IAS Communications Inc. for a new antenna product called the Contrawound Toroidal Helical Antenna, also...
With the lifespan of paging devices getting ever shorter, and with new advanced paging devices flooding the marketplace, paging carriers must be extra careful in their purchasing patterns.Kevin Reynolds, president and founder of PCS Maze Inc.-a wireless industry consulting service based in Texas-said the...
A group of smaller, paging manufacturers impudently are challenging the pager dominance of the 800-pound gorilla that is Motorola Inc. by creating products with unique features designed to set themselves apart."Paging is a commodity," said Tim Kataras, president of Global Access Inc., a smaller...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will use Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s paging technology to build out several major markets during the next two years.TSR has ordered more than 3,000 C2000 controlled transmitters and multiple GL3000 switches from Glenayre for its upcoming FLEX buildout...
PageMart Wireless Inc. launched a narrowband personal communications services network in Austin and San Antonio, offering a guaranteed-receipt alphanumeric message service called Scout.This makes PageMart the first paging carrier since SkyTel Communications Inc. to operate a ReFLEX paging network and the first ever to...
SkyTel Communications Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Access Group have teamed with Internet security technology provider V-One Corp. to implement an encryption security enhancement for two-way paging and pagers.Corporate and government customers who want encryption, authentication and access control for their pager-to-pager, e-mail-to-pager...
ATLANTA, Ga.-The Transport and Access Systems Group of World Access Inc. announced at Supercomm last week its WavePLEX spread spectrum family of digital microwave radios and said it will resell Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Western Multiplex LYNX.sc line of point-to-point spread spectrum radios as part...
