Sprint PCS affiliate IWO Holdings filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $173 million in an initial public offering. The company said it would use proceeds from the offering to expand its network. IWO serves more than 56,000 subscribers in...
Arch Communications Group Inc. launched its two-way messaging service this week, positioning the new service as far away from the old paging paradigm as possible by using the brand Webster Internet Messaging."Fundamentally, at its core, it's a wireless e-mail service offering," said Ed Baker,...
Due to an anticipated decrease in domestic South Korean sales related to the elimination of phone subsidies, Qualcomm Inc. expects lower order levels for its Code Division Multiple Access chipsets in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000. Qualcomm said it did not expect the...
WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission decision last week that is largely favorable to the paging industry has led one local telephone company to threaten to sue."Requiring local service providers to provide free facilities to paging companies, in addition to making ongoing payments to those companies,...
OracleMobile added support for two-way wireless messaging devices to its OracleMobile.com wireless Internet portal service, which Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. both agreed to make available to their messaging customers.The two-way pager service, called Ask@OracleMobile, allows users to access information based on...
Whatever you do, don't tell John Beletic he's running a paging network."We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and people are still calling us a paging carrier," said the chairman and chief executive officer...
Two-way messaging took a leap forward last week as Motorola Inc. introduced a new two-way pager and JP Systems Inc. implemented a mobile Internet portal service.Motorola unveiled its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, which features a full Qwerty keyboard, a flip-top screen and a...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. released first-quarter earnings, elected a new chairman and completed both the acquisition of NationPage and initial construction of a nationwide Asynchronous Transfer Mode network.Metrocall's first quarter net loss was $47.7 million, compared with a net loss of $42 million last year....
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has changed its name to Motient Corp., with the new Nasdaq symbol MTNT."Motient is information in motion, solutions in motion and instant messaging for business-to-business and business-to-consumers," said Walt Purnell Jr., president and chief executive officer of...
Concerns over the effectiveness of Research In Motion Ltd.'s distribution partners came to a head last week, as expectations of flat revenues in the face of increased spending forced the company's stock down 44 percent, despite positive earnings and new product and partnership announcements.The...
Metrocall Inc. formed a strategic partnering agreement with WirelessMD Inc. to target the medical community. Specifically, the two hope to upgrade existing one-way paging accounts to two-way interactive paging services and products. Metrocall said it will use Wireless MD's proprietary interactive medical data retrieval...
Adaptive Broadband Corp. was awarded a $56 million, five-year contract to provide its AB-Access fixed wireless broadband equipment to Cybertech Wireless Inc., a privately held, business-to-business Internet Service Provider.Aether Systems Inc. has acquired IFX Group plc, a European provider of mobile financial data, for...
IRVINE, Calif.-Primal, a provider of Internet-enabled customer management software to the communications industry, signed an order to provide Metrocall Inc. with its customer care and billing system, Connect CCB.According to Primal, the new system is a Web-based, Internet Protocol and wireless customer care and...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Inciscent, the wireless application service provider formed by Metrocall Inc. and several partners, said it has finalized an agreement with PSINet Inc. for Internet service provider services.The agreement calls for PSINet to provide Internet access, Internet Protocol backbone, hosting services and technology support...
NEW YORK-In a series of transactions, paging carrier Metrocall Inc., Alexandria, Va., has turned over 45-percent control of the company to AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Aether Systems Inc., PSINet Inc. and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc.For a collective investment of about $51 million...
The Feb. 28 article, "Angelos, Carlo join to head research program," should have stated that AT&T Corp. holds a 19.9 percent stake in Metrocall Inc.In addition, due to incorrect information provided by the Food and Drug Administration, RCR reported that FDA recommendations for additional...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Metrocall Inc. and Aquis Communications Group Inc. announced results of their respective 900 MHz spectrum auction bids.Aquis said it won licenses in five of the top seven markets in the Northeast and Midwest, including Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.Meanwhile, Metrocall said...
NEW ORLEANS-Glenayre Technologies Inc. introduced a two-way wireless communications module called @ctiveLink for the Visor handheld computer from Handspring Inc., the first ReFLEX-based two-way wireless data solution for a Palm operating system device.The module is designed to snap into the Springboard expansion slot on...
WASHINGTON-Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos is teaming with George Carlo, who headed the U.S. industry-funded mobile phone-cancer research program before breaking with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) last year, to create a new radiation-protection project that will include follow-up studies and establish a comprehensive...
WASHINGTON-Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos is teaming with George Carlo, who headed the industry-funded mobile phone cancer research program before breaking with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last year, to create a new radiation-protection project that will include follow-up studies and establish a comprehensive surveillance...
Metrocall Inc. announced it has launched a marketing campaign in support of its agreement with HitMeNow.com, an online shopping service, formed in November.HitMeNow.com offers deals on tickets to entertainment events, for merchandise and for travel opportunities. Customers who access the Web site can fill...
Speculation continues about Metrocall's stated intention to participate further in the paging industry's consolidation. The quintupling of Metrocall stock to more than $10 a share-along with the $75 million in potential added investments from Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and existing bank facilities-leaves Metrocall...
Aether Systems Inc. rose to the top of the news last week after it was identified as Metrocall Inc.'s mysterious third investor and joint venture partner-joining PSINet Inc. and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst-as well as for announcing a plan to acquire Riverbed Technologies...
WASHINGTON-Rather than granting a spectrum-cap waiver requested by Arch Communications Group Inc., the Federal Communications Commission should remove the cap altogether, said Metrocall Inc. in comments filed last week. Meanwhile, two traditional one-way paging carriers urged the FCC to reject the waiver request.Narrowband personal...
