Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and Darien Telephone Co. announced that TDS' Camden Telephone Co. affiliate of St. Mary's, Ga., has acquired controlling interest in the Georgia rural service area 12 wireline cellular market, which serves 211,000 pops between Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla....
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all of Parkway Paging Inc.'s stock. Metrocall said the total purchase price will be about $28 million and will consist of cash and up to 51 percent stock at Parkway's choice.Metrocall...
Six months of executive infighting at Metrocall Inc. has led to a top-level management shake-up at the paging carrier, an eventuality the company discounted just three weeks ago.Among the changes, Richard M. Johnston will replace Harry L. Brock Jr. as chairman of the company's...
Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group was a victim of its own success during the last five months of 1995. A variety of factors caused significant delays in the shipments of its popular one-way and two-way pagers, according to several major paging companies.The backlog, which...
The top three executives of Metrocall Inc. convened a teleconference for journalists, analysts and stockholders Jan. 3 that they said was intended largely to dispel widespread rumors of a top-level management shake-up.Metrocall officers consider the rumors, which Chief Executive Officer Christopher Kidd vehemently denied,...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with Crutchfield Corp., a national retail catalog sales firm in Charlottesville, Va.The Crutchfield catalog specializes in car, home, electronics and audio/video equipment, reaching millions of potential customers, Metrocall said. With the agreement, Crutchfield will feature Metrocall's...
Metrocall Inc. has commenced a public offering of four million shares of its common stock at a price of $28.25 per share.The company expects to receive net proceeds from the offering of about $107 million and is concurrently offering $110 million principal amount of...
Paging Network Inc. completed the purchase of the paging assets of California-based International Paging Corp. effective Sept. 1. PageNet said it will acquire 50,000 IPC paging customers in California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Utah for a cash purchase price of $15 million. "We...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said that Harry L. Brock Jr. has withdrawn his request to be reinstated as company president, as well as his complaint against certain directors of the company.Brock filed a lawsuit against Metrocall directors earlier this month after a majority of the...
After a majority vote Aug. 2 by Metrocall Inc.'s board of directors not to reappoint Harry L. Brock Jr. as president of the company, Brock filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court seeking his reinstatement.According to the Alexandria, Va.-based company, seven of nine members...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced its One Touch advanced messaging service combining the benefits of nationwide paging services with the flexibility of a single telephone number.The company said One Touch subscribers will be given a personal 800 number to route communications to their office, home,...
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Cellular One of Ohio and Michigan announced Lindsay Notwell has been appointed director of wireless data, heading up this new department. Notwell will be responsible for building and managing the wireless data group and supervise the rollout of various wireless programs. Prior to Cellular...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest radio common carrier paging operators based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. Ranking is based on the number of subscribers the operators reported having in the United...
BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. has signed a five-year contract with Doston Technology Inc. to purchase equipmint that delivers inhanced services. BellSouth uses Boston's CO ACCESS Network Services Platforms to provide MemoryCall service, including call answering and voice messaging, in semveral Southern states.Metrocall Inc. announced it...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has completed its merger with FirstPAGE USA Inc., increasing the company's total pagers in service to more than 585,000.During the company's initial public offering in July 1993, Metrocall had fewer than 220,000 pagers in service.The company also announced a $125 million...
