CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. scored a major, $750,000 sale for its @ctiveMessaging unified messaging platform to Edge Wireless Inc., an AT&T Wireless Communications Inc. affiliate.The deal comes shortly after Glenayre announced it would exit the paging infrastructure business and focus solely on its unified...
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...
As predictable as ants at a picnic, the summer of 2001 finds the mainstream press proclaiming the death of the paging industry. This time around, they are wrapping it inside their coverage of the dot-com deathwatch. However, industry professionals and trade press know 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...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. today filed a lawsuit against Paging America for allegedly misleading customers with the promise of a free Motorola pager.Motorola said it conducted an investigation of the situation in response to complaints from consumers who said they were inundated with unsolicited...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Just a week after paging infrastructure provider Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its plans to drop out of the business, two more companies licensed Motorola Inc.'s two-way paging protocol, ReFLEX.Standard Telecom, which manufactures Nixxo products and pagers, and Advantra, which designs and manufactures...
After a year in which its global customer base increased from 53 million customers to a staggering 83 million customers, U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc said it will turn its attention this year from rounding up more subscribers to making money off the ones it...
Paging lit up the wireless industry like a white-hot star.It showed that fistfuls of money could be made using wireless technology. It showed that wireless companies could grow by leaps and bounds virtually overnight. Paging showed the industry that millions and millions of people...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has delayed the auction of upper and lower paging channels until Oct. 30. It was originally scheduled to begin June 26.Participants who filed their short form prior to the original deadline of May 14 should plan on re-filing their applications...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced a massive restructuring plan last week that includes cutting 55 percent of its work force-a full 700 positions-and completely dismantling its wireless messaging infrastructure division. Glenayre officials said the company would refocus its energies on its unified messaging products and...
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...
NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar."The widespread belief that you need 3G to...
NEW YORK-Although growing use of Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail service has congested wireless networks in some areas, paging carriers are not well-positioned to seize this opportunity to serve as alternative providers, said Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer of RIM."Paging carriers have tried to...
Aether Systems Inc. announced solid first-quarter earnings last week along with a slightly revised business plan, but the results were not enough to please investors who once cherished the company as a high-growth, high-tech gem.Aether faced a barrage of downgrades as its stock slipped...
Vision. Brains. Stubbornness. Courage. Discouragement, Spunk. Talent. Persistence.The four people inducted into RCR Wireless News' Wireless Hall of Fame this year display most, if not all of these attributes (and let's be honest, stubbornness is not always looked upon as an asset.) Yet it...
NEW YORK-With up to seven competitors in some large markets, price wars have begun that are not sustainable as a long-term business case for carriers, telecommunications executives said last week at the "Kagan Wireless Telecom Summit.""Verizon missed its additions significantly. When the big guys...
While many people make a name for themselves by inventing technology that somehow changes the world, James A. Dwyer Jr.'s contribution to the wireless communications industry during the past 40 years is a little more subtle. Instead of earth-shattering technology, Dwyer's contribution involves both...
Navigating the September trade-show scene is going to be a challenge for the wireless industry.The two major trade associations are sponsoring shows the same week targeting the same audience. Initially, it just looked like exhibitors and attendees would have some trouble figuring out the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is accepting comments on a request from Space Data Research L.L.C. for a declaratory ruling or waiver to allow it to use balloons as base stations to offer two-way paging and other advanced messaging services.Space Data said it plans to...
HONOLULU-RAM Paging Hawaii, a Hawaiian paging company, said it will start operating under the name of its parent company, Arch Wireless Inc."Arch Wireless has grown to become one of the leading wireless messaging providers in the United States, and we believe RAM Paging will...
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...
