LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Alltel Corp. introduced its First Fan Buzz service, allowing customers to have news from top college sports programs sent to their wireless phones or two-way pagers. The information, which will come from the athletic departments of participating schools, will be sent via...
BEIJING, China-Amid slowing subscriber growth worldwide, China still shows a healthy increase in mobile-phone users. The country's two mobile-phone operators are each offering new services-one General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the other CDMA. Handset manufacturing is also soaring, with domestic suppliers narrowing the still...
HONG KONG-On the face of it, Hutchison Whampoa is a great success story. The company is among the leading international wireless operators and part of the giant Cheung Kong (Holdings), which in May announced after-tax profits of US$8 billion on a market capitalization of...
OSLO, Norway—Telenor Mobil said it will stop offering paging services Sept. 1, 2003, due to diminished demand. Telenor also said its technical equipment supplier is exiting the paging business and has already ceased production of certain components.The company said it has notified the Norwegian...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Texas Instruments said it is rolling out a new family of 125-MSPS dual digital-to-analog converters for cellular and paging base stations, point-to-point microwave systems, wireless local loop, wireless local area networks and cable modems.The company said the product family "gives customers a higher...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it has solved a technical problem disrupting operation of its Digital mova P503I Hyper mobile phone. The technical problems affected voice and e-mail reception of the i-appli compatible i-mode phones in certain areas where the handset was unable to...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Wireless messaging carrier Arch Wireless Inc. today released its second quarter earnings, showing revenues and one-way paging subscriber losses in line with the company's revised expectations.The company also reported a staggering second quarter loss of $1.1 billion, $976 million of which is a...
DULUTH, Ga.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. released its second-quarter earnings, showing the drastic results and continued restructuring moves associated with the company's escape from the flailing paging industry.Glenayre posted revenues from its continuing unified messaging operations of $26.5 million for the second quarter, ended June 30,...
To the Editor:Is it just my imagination or did something ominous and unspeakable happen when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the Federal Communications Commission's cancellation of the C- and F-block licenses of NextWave Personal Communications Inc.? In...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-NTELOS Inc. and Conestoga Enterprises Inc. reached a definitive merger deal that will create an integrated communications provider in the Mid-Atlantic region with 200,000 PCS subscribers and 175,000 local access telephone lines.NTELOS will pay stockholders of Conestoga a total of $335 million, or...
NEW YORK-Florida has codified into its own law a sweeping overhaul and simplification of telecommunications taxation that responds, in part, to a new federal statute that becomes effective next year.This month, the Florida Department of Revenue began accepting registration forms from all entities subject...
A billing discrepancy is to blame for a disastrous subscriber and revenue miscalculation that could potentially force Arch Wireless Inc., the nation's largest paging and messaging company, into bankruptcy.Arch announced last week it is retracting its last-ditch-effort plan to restructure its burgeoning debt and...
It is the best of times. It is the worst of times.Sprint PCS reported second-quarter financials so great, they even surprised analysts covering the industry. Last week, three of the six largest wireless operators- Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc.-reported both customer...
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...
Editor's Note: The RCR Wireless News editorial staff has compiled this list of the 20 largest international paging markets by country, ranked by the estimated number of subscribers in each country.Subscriber statistics were obtained from the Strategis Group, the European Mobile Messaging Association, Taylor Nelson...
The difficulties of the paging industry caught up with wholesale paging carrier PNI Technologies Inc., forcing the company into filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia.PNI said it had hoped to restructure its...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association continued its march toward re-invention last week by holding a press briefing intended to show that the trade group is still relevant."Whatever we were doing two years ago, we aren't doing it anymore. Whatever we were doing a year...
It's been almost two months since Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it would discontinue its paging infrastructure operations-a business Glenayre has been an integral part of for nearly 40 years, a business it helped create. It is a move company executives said was inevitable and...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Regional paging carrier Aquis Communications Group Inc. said it has taken the first steps of a significant restructuring plan, moves the company hopes will save it from the growing list of bankrupt paging companies.Most importantly, Aquis announced a series of deals with its...
WASHINGTON-Energy, water and railroad industries-key sectors of the nation's critical infrastructure-have urged the Bush administration to address pressing spectrum needs, which have been largely neglected since the passage of a 1993 budget law authorizing the federal government to sell the airwaves to commercial wireless...
Ameritech Paging, owned by SBC Communications, was left out of RCR Wireless News' 2001 Top 20 Paging Carrier list in the June 18, 2001 issue. With 1.1 million subscribers, Ameritech would have placed 6th, just after SkyTel Communications Inc. Ameritech's business information follows: Company: Ameritech...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proclaimed the good news that the wireless industry is competitive, as more than 75 percent of the population can choose between five or more wireless carriers."Not every item that will come to you will be a good-news item, but we...
WASHINGTON-A spokesman for a lawmaker at the center of the Internet tax debate said a front-page USA Today story last week that reported a compromise had been reached was incorrect, but he expressed optimism that a bill will be passed before the moratorium on...
Cellemetry L.L.C.Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.'s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. According to Geoff Girdler, head of the Numerex wireless communication group, "This powerful tool for...
