MEXICOCorsair Communications Inc. recently completed installation of its radio-frequency fingerprinting system for Baja Celular Mexicana in Tijuana, and for Celular de Telefonia in Monterrey, the company announced. Corsair will provide fraud protection for the two companies with its PhonePrint Service Bureau program. Under the...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre and Unicom China Paging Corp. have launched the third phase of Unicom's nationwide paging network in China, the companies announced in a ceremony at Unicom's office in Xiamen.Located in Fujian province, Xiamen is the first of 21 cities that Unicom plans to...
Bill Jackson, a former military software developer who has made a career developing communications applications for top secret U.S. government operations, has brought his flexible style of software solutions to the paging industry.The company he helped found-J Technology Inc., Athens, Ala.-recently released the PageWizard...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced users of the AccessLink two-way data messaging pager, made by its recently acquired wholly owned subsidiary Wireless Access Inc., can connect to 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot via the One Touch application software and cable from JP Systems Inc.The connection...
Voice paging service will get another chance at success as Conxus Communications Inc. launches Pocketalk in the nation's capital and South Florida.Conxus said it launched service last week in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Fla., and in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore metropolitan area,...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Integrated Network Group signed a contract to provide its modular voice processing system to Clearnet PCS Inc. for use in Clearnet's personal communications services network in Canada, announced the companies.According to the agreement, which Glenayre values at $2 million, the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-AccessLine Technologies Inc. said it granted rights to Glenayre Technologies Inc. and its Glenayre Electronics subsidiary to use AccessLine's call routing and monitoring technologies.According to AccessLine, Glenayre previously had infringed its patent by using the technology in Glenayre's modular voice processing platform and...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glen-ayre Technologies Inc. and Wireless Access Inc. said Friday they completed their merger, in which Wireless Access shareholders received about $82 million in cash. Wireless Access option holders also received options to purchase about 1.3 million shares of Glenayre common stock.The transaction will...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced that it signed a contract to provide a high-speed paging network in the Heilongjiang province of China for its Posts and Telecommunications Authority.Glenayre values the arrangement at $16.2 million.Under terms of the agreement, Glenayre will install its advanced paging and...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications launched its FLEX-based Nationwide High Speed Paging Network in 11 provincial capital cities. The system uses high-speed paging systems from Glenayre Technologies Inc., said the company.Glenayre said the Chinese paging network is the first in the world...
NEW YORK-Borrowing a tag line from a recently released report of the Paging Leadership Association, industry representatives and analysts say there is "no grim reaper for the beeper."The association, comprised of the 13 companies that represent 73 percent of the United States paging market,...
Despite the fact most private-radio attention is aimed at certain 800 MHz and 900 MHz operations and the industrial radio arena, 220 MHz to 222 MHz service is up and running, and its expansion channels soon will be up for auction.And it is that...
Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000)1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,0002 NEC Corp. $41,174,0003 Motorola Inc. $27,973,0004 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,0005 Ericsson...
Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000)1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,0002 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,0003 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,1524 NEC Corp. $718,0005 Nokia...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Messaging Group said it successfully transmitted one-way and two-way paging messages concurrently using the same network infrastructure.During ReFLEX testing with PageMart Wireless Inc., Glenayre transmitted FLEX, ReFLEX and POCSAG messages on the same network. Glenayre said the trials demonstrate...
Berkeley Varitronics Systems Inc. won a contract to provide propagation analysis equipment to Qualcomm Inc. for international distribution of personal communications services and cellular systems. Berkeley values the arrangement at $750,000. The company also won a contract to design a 2.3 GHz wireless local...
RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN1 Brightpoint Inc. 259.88%2 Tellabs Inc. 169.96%3 Specialty Teleconstructors 150.00%4 ADC Telecommunications Inc. 149.00%5 WinStar Communications, Inc. 132.53%6 ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. won a contract to install a nationwide high-speed paging network in Taiwan for ChungHwa Telecom, Taiwan's national communications company. Glenayre values the arrangement at $31 million.ChungHwa Telecom has more than 2 million paging subscribers online. The new system will operate...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Conxus Communications Inc. completed a $35 million private equity placement to fund continued network buildout of its narrowband personal communications services network.Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. served as placement agent for the offering, and Chase Capital Partners was lead investor along with current...
Benbow PCS Ventures Inc., of which Arch Communications Group Inc. owns 49.9 percent, plans to acquire Page Call Inc., allowing Benbow to compete nationwide in narrowband personal communications services.Eureka, Calif.-based Benbow, owner of two regional NPCS licenses, signed a definitive agreement to purchase the...
Euristix Ltd. and Tellabs are working together to develop Tellabs' Titan 550 Element Management System using the Euristix Raceman EMSX platform development toolkit based on Windows NT. The companies said the 5500 EMS increases operational efficiency and through a variety of northbound interfaces will...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Glenayre Technologies Inc. reached agreements with several Latin American companies while participating in a trade mission in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. William Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, led the Latin American mission.In Brazil, Glenayre won contracts to complete an infrastructure expansion and...
