paging

In a marked shift in strategy, Datalink.net unveiled a new business unit called Net2Wireless Turnkey Business Solutions, designed to provide business-to-business wireless extension services. Originally, Datalink aimed its turnkey information …

Perhaps the greatest indicator of the wireless data industry’s rise to popularity is the way paging carriers are positioning themselves in the space today. Pioneering wireless data carriers like American …

A division, not an exclusion, of interests seems to be emerging between cellular and paging services. Business customers are keeping the paging market in check while the cellular phone continues …

Nokia announced an agreement with M1, a mobile and paging service provider, to expand M1’s Global System for Mobile communications system in Singapore. The deal, valued at more than $35 …

NEW YORK-Despite continuing paging and satellite sector laggards, Motorola Inc. maintained significant forward momentum in the last quarter of 1999. Earnings rose by 233 percent to $514 million, or 82 …

The business case for cdmaOne operators to migrate to 1XRTT technology is a no-brainer since carriers will have the luxury of doubling their voice capacity and experimenting with high-speed data …

SkyTel, an MCI WorldCom company, announced it will add new paging protocol technology to its network to make it compatible with the next generation of ReFLEX two-way pagers. Today, two-way …

In a prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission detailing its proposed merger with Arch Communications Group Inc., Paging Network Inc. unveiled how it plans to distribute equity …

LAQUINTA, Calif.-Customers continue to flock to wireless communications, with Bell Atlantic Mobile announcing it added 874,000 wireless customers in the fourth quarter, bringing its total to 7.7 million customers. The …

WASHINGTON-With only a month until President Clinton sends his 2001 budget plan to Congress, White House and congressional number crunchers face the daunting task of putting a dollar figure on …

WASHINGTON-Even as wireless carriers begin paying nearly 6 percent of their interstate and international revenues to the federal universal-service fund, they are gearing up on a number of fronts to …

If recent announcements by paging vendors and carriers are any indication, two-way paging products and services are poised to make a big splash in 2000. Both Motorola Inc. and Glenayre …

LAS VEGAS-Last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas saw Motorola Inc. introduce a number of wireless products, including a satellite phone and devices to make accessing the Internet easier, …

WASHINGTON-In its last decision impacting the wireless industry for 1999, the Federal Communications Commission lifted the freeze and adopted licensing and service rules for the 3.2 megahertz of spectrum designated …

Research In Motion Ltd. ended the year with several potentially significant announcements, including a long-awaited reorder contract with BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. and the opening of a new research and …

WASHINGTON-Agreeing with a Federal Communications Commission decision, a federal appeals court has ruled one-way paging carriers are entitled to compensation from local exchange carriers. “We will not second-guess the agency,” …

First MessageLink Inc. founder Don Buzzelli decided to take advantage of the paging industry’s consolidation frenzy by acquiring enough small paging carriers to reach 500,000 subscribers and $50 million in …

Motorola Inc.-expected next week to introduce its ReFLEX 25 two-way pager at CES in Las Vegas-has entered into a series of agreements with Glenayre Technologies Inc. to expand ReFLEX 25-based …

Everywhere you look, competition is the key phrase. Paging operator MessageLink noted the intense competition between Internet service providers and paging carriers makes the two ideal partners in the communications …

The European paging industry is in the midst of another makeover as it struggles to compete with mobile telephony as a mass-market communications medium. Devices that can send and receive …

TOKYO-Chubu Telemessage Inc., a paging carrier based in central Japan, will shut down its business by March 2000. The carrier’s subscribers-109,000 at the end of September 1999-are expected to be …

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 …

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

As the fourth quarter comes to a close, it seems ReFLEX 25 paging operators will not get the two-way pagers manufacturers promised would be available by now. Neither Motorola Inc. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission expects to hold an auction for the remaining narrowband personal communications services licenses as early as next summer. “At this point we don’t have a date …