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DALLAS-WebLink Wireless Inc.’s stocks dropped almost 50 percent last week after the company released its fourth-quarter results, which included a huge drops in sales, dire warnings for the year to …

WEST BOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Group’s shares jumped up 14 percent at the start of trading Feb. 15 to about $1 per share after announcements it received $250 million for the …

Like most other paging companies, PNI Technologies Inc. is working to pull itself out from under the shadow of the flagging paging industry. But while most carriers are tying to …

SINGAPORE-Singapore’s smallest paging operator, Hutchison Intrapage, has quit the sector four years after it began operations. The shareholders-Hong Kong’s Hutchison Telecommunications (40 percent), Intraco (30 percent) and its subsidiary Teledata …

Telcom Global Chris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.’s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company’s global …

TheRightSize TheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers …

NEW YORK-With the stocks of mobile operators down from their 52-week highs, despite some recent rebounding, now is a good time to buy them, said Sean P. Butson, wireless services …

Nextel Communications Inc.’s persistence finally paid off. After years of waiting and working to get a hold of 900 MHz Specialized Mobile Radio licenses originally owned by Paging Network Inc., …

Paging resellers will no longer have to go through carriers to get pagers for their customers under a new program from paging device giant Motorola Inc. Motorola introduced a new …

It has been less than 20 years since the first commercial cellular phone call was completed in the United States. The date was Oct. 13, 1983. Bob Barnett, then president …

Twenty years ago, in a dangerous neighborhood in the slums of Denver, a monthly newspaper called Radio Communications Report was first published. Its mission: to cover the emerging land mobile …

CHINA China Unicom reported it had more than 12.7 million wireless customers at the end of last year, an increase of more than 300 percent from 1999. China’s second largest …

SINGAPORE-Four years after it was first introduced in Japan, PHS technology finally has made some headway in the international telecommunications arena. Taiwanese paging operator First International Telecom (Fitel) recently was …

BUCHAREST, Romania-In the early 1990s in Romania, paging terminals came to be well-known. Since then, the market has gone through a period of quick penetration, followed by market uncertainty and …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Globalstar could be the last hope for global mobile personal communications by satellite (GMPCS) survival in Africa. During a heated debate at the Satcom Africa ’99 conference held …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Paging carrier Metrocall Inc. may have to move from Nasdaq’s National Market System to its SmallCap Market System because the company’s stock has been trading below the minimum bid …

NEW DELHI, India-The slide in the Thai paging industry seen in 2000 is likely to continue during 2001, but operators hope to ride out the crisis by exploring value-added products …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Despite the positive noises coming from the industry body for paging and messaging service providers in Europe, falling subscriber numbers and service provider rationalization indicate paging might be about …

Dear Editor: Your Dec. 11 piece, “TSR closes operations,” was interesting in light of what appears to be a total lack of information from actual TSR management. As a former …

Almost a month after the apparent demise of TSR Wireless L.L.C., which was the nation’s fourth-largest paging carrier before it suddenly closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy, there is …

At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the new events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting …

As the industry whets its appetite on the prospect of third-generation services and all the revenue-generating opportunities wireless Internet access can bring, telecom vendors are watching their stock prices fall …

A week after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in New Jersey, TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation’s fourth largest paging carrier, announced Friday it will continue to keep its network up …

TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation’s largest privately held paging carrier, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late Friday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey in …

RICHMOND, Va.-The Navy Exchange Service Command has selected SunCom, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s first network affiliate, to provide digital wireless service and equipment to 10 military exchange Navy and Marine …