ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Paging and messaging provider Metrocall Inc. announced its plan of reorganization was confirmed by the United States Bankruptcy Court and that the company expects to emerge from the restructuring process by early October."We are pleased our plan has been confirmed by the court...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Paging and messaging carrier Metrocall Inc. said the bankruptcy court approved its reorganization disclosure statement, an important step in its process of reorganization in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.Metrocall said it expects to emerge from bankruptcy in September.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Paging and messaging carrier Metrocall Inc. said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing it dismissed its auditor, Arthur Andersen, and will replace it with Ernst & Young.The move comes as a variety of wireless companies are rethinking their accounting practices in the...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Paging and messaging carrier Metrocall Inc. announced it reached a pre-negotiated plan of reorganization in Chapter 11 bankruptcy with its creditors, and will file the plan with the bankruptcy court early next month.The move comes as no surprise. Metrocall has for the past...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—A potentially important deal between Motorola Inc. and Multitone Electronics has fallen through, Motorola confirmed, which leaves the paging and messaging landscape still more uncertain.Last year Motorola announced it would exit the paging and messaging industry altogether, and would stop making its...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—News from the nation's paging and messaging companies continues to fly, as one announced its plan of reorganization was approved by its bankruptcy court and another said it will withhold filing its quarterly 10-Q report due to "certain activities in process that, upon...
BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, United States—Ending months of speculation, Motorola announced it is exiting the ReFLEX paging business by the middle of next year, an industry the company played a major role in developing.Motorola said its Wireless Messaging Division, which is part of its Personal...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Steven D. "Jake" Jacoby, chief operating officer and executive vice president of wireless messaging company Metrocall Inc., was on board American Airlines Flight 77 yesterday, on his way to the Personal Communications Industry Association's annual trade show, when the plane crashed into the...
It's quiet out there in the paging and messaging industry.Perhaps too quiet.WebLink Wireless Inc., Arch Wireless Inc. and Metrocall Inc. are the three largest independent paging and messaging companies in the country, and it seems their fates are intricately entwined. They are all facing...
NEW YORK-Telecommunications reflected the dramatic drop in the number and size of mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. companies last quarter, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.Across industry sectors, these transactions numbered 1,954, down from 2,539 during the year-ago quarter. Communications companies announced 86 combinations this spring,...
In the story "'Real World' equipped with Metrocall service," on page 33 of this issue of RCR Wireless News, the wireless carrier partnering with MTV is WebLink Wireless Inc.
DALLAS-Reality television is joining the wireless world through a deal between Metrocall Inc. and MTV.Metrocall, a major sponsor of the music station's popular "The Real World" program, equipped the show's cast and crew with Motorola Inc.'s Talkabout T900 two-way pager. According to Metrocall, the...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. moved to bolster its subscriber base and retail operation by purchasing the paging assets of Radiofone and Beepers Unlimited from Alltel Corp. The company will acquire the existing Radiofone customer base and 33 Beepers Unlimited retail outlets in five southeast states.The...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.-Executives of Motorola Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association sparred over the future of paging and device-makers' support for it at last week's Southeastern Communications Association "Wireless Messaging 2001" conference held here."Although we have seen some decline this year, early on...
Brad Scott does not think one-way paging is dead."We do believe there is still opportunity in paging, in one-way paging," he said. "It is a challenging business. It's certainly not a business that is in a growth mode right now, but it is a...
DALLAS-WebLink Wireless Inc., one of the nation's largest messaging carriers with more than 2 million customers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas division.The move comes as no real surprise; WebLink has...
As the nation's largest messaging carriers suffer through a potentially disastrous economic decline, smaller carriers-those that only cover a few states-are also feeling the effects of the flagging industry. However, while many are losing their businesses to bankruptcy and consolidation, others seem to be...
"Advanced messaging services."It's the catch phrase for the wireless messaging industry today, with most major companies betting everything that services like wireless e-mail access, Internet information and two-way paging will catch on with both consumers and businesses-and will compensate for the radical decrease in...
Just days before embarking on an unprecedented merger under concurrent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, Metrocall Inc. pulled out of its deal with WebLink Wireless Inc., citing WebLink's recently announced layoffs and sales channel cutbacks."Metrocall continues to believe strongly that a combination of the businesses...
The plan is ambitious, to say the least.Metrocall Inc. and WebLink Wireless Inc. announced last week a plan to merge by concurrently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a business move that apparently has never been done before. The struggling companies face a number of...
As troubles continue to escalate for embattled paging companies, speculation on marriages between the largest companies are getting rave reviews, even if they don't pan out.Media reports surfaced last week that Metrocall Inc. was in merger talks with Motient Corp., a move that many...
Inciscent Inc., the wireless software provider backed by Aether Systems Inc. and Metrocall Inc., released a new wireless e-mail program the company said can run on almost any handheld device and any carrier's network."This is a single software platform that manages across all devices...
The traditional paging industry is dead, many analysts and paging veterans agree. But there is an escape route for the few companies left fighting, though many industry observers agree more consolation will take place and not everyone will make it to greener pastures.The recent...
Two-way messaging licenses held by the now-bankrupt paging company TSR Wireless L.L.C. will be auctioned off near the end of this month, according to the company's bankruptcy trustee Charles Forman.The auction for the two two-way licenses, informally known as the channel 4 and channel...
