Metrocall Inc. took the latest step in the paging industry's evolutionary journey last week, unveiling an acquisition, a new joint venture, a recapitalization plan and a strong financial partner tapped to fund future acquisitions.Although negotiated separately, the various developments serve a common purpose-to prepare...
In a deal loud with industry-shaking repercussions, the United States' top two paging carriers announced their intention to merge in November, raising the consolidation bar to a level as yet unseen in the industry's history.Arch Communications Group Inc., the second-largest paging carrier, emerged as...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has scheduled a special stockholder meeting for Jan. 14 to vote on increasing Metrocall common stock from 100 million to 200 million shares and increasing preferred stock shares from 1 million to 2 million.
The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and technological efforts designed to increase the awareness and robustness of paging technology.The Personal Communications Industry Association's Y2K Task Force said...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Furthering its goal of becoming a complete communications provider, Metrocall Inc. announced an alliance with Covad Communications as the first step in providing high-speed Internet services through the newly formed Metrocall.net division.Through Covad, Metrocall will provide digital line subscriber services to those customers...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-To meet the growing demand for high-speed Internet access, Metrocall Inc. announced the formation of Metrocall.net, a new strategic operating division.Metrocall.net will market nationally bundled services to home office users as well as mid-size companies. The bundled services will include broadband Internet access,...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Eight leading paging companies, in an effort managed by the Personal Communications Industry Association, launched the industry sector's first collaborative advertising campaign with TV and radio spots beginning to air in Fresno, Calif., and Jacksonville, Fla.Designed to communicate the advantages of paging technology,...
In a deal loud with industry-shaking repercussions, the nation's top two paging carriers announced their intention to merge last week, raising the consolidation bar to a level as yet unseen in industry's history.Arch Communications Group Inc., the second-largest paging carrier, emerged as the victor...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter, ended Sept. 30, of $143 million, an increase of 44 percent from the previous year's third-quarter revenues of $99.4 million.The company said it had a net loss of $48 million, or $1.15 per share, compared...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. said it signed a letter of intent to add Metrocall Inc.'s CountDown prepaid paging to its CellEase prepaid services portfolio.According to the agreement, Metrocall will supply pagers from both Motorola Inc. and Cirkisys to STC so both may distribute...
Metrocall Inc. last week transferred its common stock listing from the Nasdaq National Market to the Nasdaq SmallCap Market in response to falling per-share prices and diluted assets as a result of recent mergers.William Collins III, Metrocall president and chief executive officer, said the...
Aether Systems Inc. announced it will acquire mobeo Inc., a company that provides financial news and stock updates on wireless devices such as pagers.Formerly called DocuPro Inc., mobeo delivers quotes on more than 150,000 stocks, options, futures, treasury, foreign exchange and other market data...
The paging industry made further progress toward implementing content services last week, as both Motorola Inc. and Arch Communications Group Inc. introduced products and services targeting the space.Arch said it will offer personalized information services to customers via an agreement with Datalink.net Inc. Datalink.net...
Financial analysts continued their wait-and-see attitude toward Paging Network Inc. as the company released second-quarter earnings.In contrast, Arch Communications Group Inc. completed its merger with MobileMedia Corp. in the second quarter, resulting in one of the lowest debt ratios in the industry and the...
Analysts have long criticized operator-assisted dispatch as the weak link in the alphanumeric paging chain, citing its inherent lack of privacy and potential for misinterpreted messages.But users have accepted these faults because there was no other way to get text messages to alphanumeric subscribers....
Originally expected in May, two-way paging devices based on ReFLEX 25 technology will not be available for commercial deployment until the fourth quarter, at the earliest, according to pager manufacturers.Motorola Inc. said its ReFLEX 25-based PageWriter 2000 two-way pager will be available mid-October, while...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation announced the winners of its 1999 Leadership Awards, to be held at a reception at PCS '99 in New Orleans in September.The awards recognize individuals and companies that have shown outstanding leadership in helping to improve their...
Intelligent agent technology has been long considered a potential boon for messaging applications looking to provide meaningful content to wireless devices.Agents are small bits of code capable of monitoring data, recognizing what information is valuable to its user and then transmitting it to a...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it has completed the nationwide rollout of its OnTheGoInfo customizable information services suite, based on Motorola Inc.'s iKno! information architecture platform.Metrocall originally launched the service at the end of March in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., market. The service is now available...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it will begin marketing personal communication services phones and services under a strategic agreement signed with TeleCorp PCS Inc., an affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.The deal calls for Metrocall to sell TeleCorp's SunCom digital phone service with voice mail,...
Although they believe the future growth of the paging industry lies in advanced messaging, paging carriers continue to search out new ways to attract customers to traditional paging services as the one-way market becomes increasingly saturated.Analysts say distribution is the key to this effort....
The echoes of MCI WorldCom Inc.'s proposed acquisition of SkyTel Communications Inc. continue to ring loudly throughout the industry, as two other paging companies found themselves linked to telecom carriers last week.In one case, rumors have surfaced that BellSouth Corp. is mulling an acquisition...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. this week signed several interconnection agreements with Bell Atlantic Corp. and a three-year bundling agreement with AnswerNet Network.The interconnection agreement provides for the delivery of local phone traffic to Metrocall's paging network, as well as compensation to Metrocall for terminating Bell...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has entered into a nationwide marketing and promotional relationship with PageMaster Corp., a national promotions company based in Thousands Oaks, Calif.Under the agreement, PageMaster will promote Metrocall products and services in the banking an financial services, beverage, consumer goods,...
