NEW YORK-Directel, a new, Dallas-based paging carrier doing business in Argentina and Brazil, has selected and installed a new billing and management system provided by In-Touch Management Systems Inc., Melville, N.Y.Besides billing, the In-Touch II system will handle functions for Directel including inventory, accounts...
Paging is growing in popularity, and to profit from it, carriers better get their networks prepared now. That is the message Motorola Inc. is pushing with a new campaign and Web site aimed at promoting its Paging Systems Group to wireless carriers."Paging takes guts,"...
NEW YORK-And now let's have a round of applause for top executives of Arch Communications Group Inc., Paging Network Inc. and SkyTel Corp.These successful emigres from wireless telephony have spearheaded a positive reversal of fortune not only for their paging companies but also for...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Paging Network Inc. officially threw its hat into the narrowband personal communications services game last week when Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced thatPageNet has agreed to buy a two-way, ReFLEX 25 system.Under the terms of the agreement, Glenayre will install the necessary infrastructure and...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The 1998 Eugene C. Bowler award was presented to David Siddall, legal adviser to Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness at the Personal Communications Industry Association's Eighth Annual Eugene C. Bowler Dinner & Awards Presentation last week.House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley Jr. (R-Va.)...
Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market.But mobile data network carriers Ardis and BellSouth Wireless Data Inc.-formerly RAM Mobile Data USA L.P.-believe two-way interactive text...
Since paging became available in 1983, the number of paging operators in China has mushroomed to more than 2,800, with more than 40 million customers. According to the Chinese language China Reform Daily, 70 million pager users are expected by 2000.China Unicom Paging Corp....
DALLAS-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s net income dropped 77 percent in the first quarter, but the company announced several new contracts.Glenayre reported net income of $3.2 million, or 5 cents per common share, well below its 1997 first-quarter bottom line of $13.4 million, or 22 cents...
Murder and espionage claims in recent months have brought to the forefront the issue of safety of wireless industry personnel working abroad.Two weeks ago, Ricardo Periera, 41, Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s general manager of the company's Sao Paulo, Brazil, operation, was shot and killed in...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. announced SingTel Paging launched commercial two-way paging and telemetry data service in Singapore using the Nexus system.SingTel is upgrading its one-way system, which uses Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. equipment supporting POCSAG and FLEX paging protocols. The...
Like the ugly duckling that was teased and spurned in its younger years only to mature into a beautiful swan, the two-way paging market is expected to someday spread its wings and lift the paging industry to new heights of subscriber growth and increased...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Following its acquisition of the company, Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced all products made by its CNET subsidiary will be marketed and sold under the Glenayre Options brand.CNET develops operational support systems, network management and integrated radio-frequency planning software products and services for the...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. reported a net loss of $121.5 million, or $2.01 per share, for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with a net gain of $16.7 million, or 27 cents per share, in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.Net revenues...
TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems announced that Metamora Telephone Co. of Metamora, Ill., selected its digital FM Cubed transmission technology to offer paging services for the company's customers.SpaceCom, which provides satellite paging transmission for a number of the country's largest paging carriers, said smaller paging operators...
DALLAS-3COM PalmPilot users can send numeric or alphanumeric pages and personal or group e-mail messages directly, using One-Touch software by JP Systems Inc., the software provider announced.The One-Touch application is a combination of software and cable products that integrate wireless communications with AccessLink two-way...
CUSHCRAFTCushcraft Corp. introduced the FRX450 UHF fiberglass omnidirectional antenna, which provides for transmission and reception of vertically polarized signals in the 450 MHz to 470 MHz frequency band. The antenna has a 5 dBi gain with an E-plane of 24 degrees. The FRX450 has...
PageMart Wireless Inc., which recently selected Glenayre Technologies Inc. as the primary supplier of its planned nationwide two-way narrowband personal communications network, announced a $10 million net loss for the quarter ended Dec. 30.The net loss, 25 cents per share, is less than the...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its wireless messaging group has activated a dual-mode narrowband personal communications services system in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the foundation of a nationwide InFLEXion/ReFLEX25 network planned by Arch Argentina, a subsidiary of Arch Latin America, Glenayre said.IFR Systems Inc....
As the economic crisis in Asia continues, residents there have been forced to find ways to budget their expenses-which could prove a limited boon to the region's paging industry.Paging traditionally has been a popular service in Asia, as is evident in the high paging...
With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company's Windows 95 operating system changed the computing world-wireless communications companies are hot to secure strategic agreements with the software giant.Motorola Inc....
LAS VEGAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced its new guaranteed-delivery text messaging service, called SurePage Nationwide Delivery.Airtime for the service will be provided by Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.'s SkyTel ReFLEX 50 two-way network, resold and marketed by PageNet. SurePage stores messages when customers are out of...
After almost two years of savage beatings on Wall Street, Glenayre Technologies Inc. has proven to have a tough chin, and analysts believe the company now is poised to come off the ropes swinging for a comeback.Stock turnaround specialists Robert M. Cohen & Co.,...
The Federal Communications Commission late last week was expected to allocate 24 megahertz for public safety communications and reserve 36 megahertz in the same 800 MHz band for commercial wireless license auctions. The 1997 budget bill requires the reallocation of TV channels 60-69 to...
