Numeric paging service, which for years was the bread and butter for paging resellers, could be their doom in a market of increased competition, decreased rates and customer savvy.Industry disagrees about who is responsible-carriers, or resellers or both-for the drastic price drops, but agrees...
Page America Group Inc. and Metrocall Inc. revised an April 1996 agreement that called for Metrocall to acquire the assets of Page America for $78.5 million. Under the revised agreement, Metrocall will acquire most of the assets of Page America for $25 million in...
Paging co. defaults on bank agreementPageAmerica Group Inc. said it is in default for the full amount of a $34 million bank credit agreement, which matured Nov. 30. The company is being purchased by Metrocall Inc. That transaction is expected to be completed this...
Omnipoint Communications Inc. has been granted access to the New York Power Authority's structures and rights-of-way. Under the agreement, approved by the board of trustees of the New York Power Authority, Omnipoint will have access to the structures and rights-of-way to install equipment and...
L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will be responsible for network solutions,...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest paging companies in the United States from survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. Rankings are based on carriers' reported total number of paging subscribers.Because of industry consolidation and...
The board of directors of AirTouch Communications Inc. declared Dec. 15 the record date for a contingent payment on its 6 percent Class B mandatorily convertible preferred stock, Series 1996. The contingent payment amount will be the volume-weighted average trading price of the shares...
RadioCall Service and Systems Inc. is a small California paging company too small to be acquired, but big enough to survive-and even thrive-in a messaging market dominated by a few big players.Core one-way paging is the focus of RadioCall. The company's recipe for success...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. received commitments from two financial institutions on a private placement of $25 million of Series A Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase common stock. Metrocall said the financing should be completed on or before Nov. 15.
When Metrocall Inc. reported third quarter earnings, the company also said it has shifted its course toward increasing revenue per unit and away from expansion in the reseller channel.For the last several years, Metrocall has pursued an aggressive course of acquiring carriers and signing...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-A special meeting of Metrocall Inc. shareholders will be held Nov. 6 to approve the proposed merger of A+ Network Inc. with the company. Shareholders of record on Oct. 4 will be allowed to attend and vote.Metrocall also said it will commence a...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. and Ex Machina Inc. have agreed to develop personal computer-based message entry and retrieval software to operate with the Nexus two-way paging system.The application will allow users to send and receive text messages to and from Nexus Tag...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has agreed to provide mobile voice messaging services to Metrocall Inc. for one year.Currently, PCSD is developing a narrowband personal communications services network, which will provide a portable voice messaging, or wireless "pocket answering machine," service to business...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it has established a strategic alliance with Bell Atlantic Corp. to offer paging and messaging services. Bell Atlantic will provide Metrocall paging services under the Bell Atlantic name to a potential market of 15 million consumer and business customers, the...
ANI Site Development announced its new web site available to antenna site location professionals. Users can get a visual representation of ANI's sites by clicking on any part of the Southeastern United States. Users also can access licensing information, maps and site pictures by...
Paging stocks have been taking a beating lately as ratings agencies and some analysts worry that plain old paging won't be able to compete in the sophisticated two-way messaging and personal communications services market that beckons the mass consumer.Earlier this month, Moody's downgraded Metrocall...
NEW YORK-Given "some ridiculous pricing in reseller channels," Metrocall Inc. "dramatically altered the distribution strategy" this spring, and results started to show by the end of the second quarter, said William Collins III, company president.At $4 per pager, (reseller) net revenues are excellent, at...
NEW YORK-The investment community is taking a second, less optimistic look at paging, at least in the near term, given ProNet Inc.'s recently announced troubles-the latest unwelcome news in this wireless sector.Some paging companies, among them Arch Communications Group Inc. and Paging Network Inc.,...
Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. said its board of directors has declared a two-for-one stock split of its common stock. The stock's $.001 par value per share will be affected by a 100 percent stock dividend whereby each holder of common stock on June...
ISLANDIA, N.Y.-Affordable Message Center has found the gospel of alphanumeric paging and is spreading the word by taking its show on the road nationwide.From an end-user standpoint, alphanumeric paging provides greater speed than two-way paging, greater message capacity than digital and greater privacy than...
NEW YORK-The numbers vary depending on the source, but there is unanimity about the trends unfolding in the nation's paging sector during the past year: subscriber growth, consolidation in the number of paging providers and overall increases in revenues despite price squeezes due to competition...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. and A+ Network Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby A+ Network will merge into Metrocall in a two-step transaction.Metrocall said it will commence a tender offer to purchase about 2.1 million A+ Network shares at $21.10 per share...
CHARLOTTE-Metrocall Inc. announced it has launched nationwide One Touch service using Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Modular Voice Processing System platform.The system will allow Metrocall to provide voice and fax messaging, call completion and information and data services.
WASHINGTON-Alexandria, Va.-based Metrocall Inc. made good on its promise to "add strategic geographic and synergistic acquisitions during the first half of the year" by signing definitive agreements to purchase two more radio common carriers. The company reported three other buys in February.Metrocall, which had...
