paging

That personal digital assistants have attracted the attention of the wireless industry is evident in the many announcements made last week targeting the popular devices. AvantGo Inc. announced it has …

When Eric Doggett took the helm of Glenayre Technologies Inc. three months ago, he found himself captain of a ship lost at sea. A slowdown in the global paging infrastructure …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said the Jiangsu GuoXin Radio Paging Co. in Nanjing City, China, awarded it a $3.8 million expansion contract for a FLEX paging network.

All around the globe, developing countries are loosening governmental controls and opening markets to competition. Nowhere, perhaps, is this trend more prominent than in the burgeoning telecommunications industry, where the …

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Corp. said it lowered the rating on Paging Network Inc. to a B+ from BB-, citing the company’s low cash flow and high spending during its …

Besieged by doubts over the very existence of a market for satellite-based voice services, low-earth-orbit carriers are starving for some kind of positive development to feed investors and customers alike. …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Aquis Communications Group Inc. reported second-quarter financial results with a net loss of $1.7 million, or 12 cents per share, compared with a net income of $87,000 the previous …

Handsets Nokia Nokia announced a new NMT 450 analog handset, to be available in the third quarter, that features true 3-volt technology and the Nokia NaviKey concept. The Nokia 640 …

BANGALORE, India-Posting a negative growth in its subscriber base, India’s paging industry has plunged into a deep crisis. During the last fiscal year the country’s subscriber base shrank by 100,000 …

HONG KONG-Paging subscriber numbers continue to fall in Hong Kong, while the popularity of cellular keeps rising as stiff competition among the six cellular carriers drives down tariffs close to …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Until recently, the dominant system in European paging was POCSAG. POCSAG paging networks, designed and installed 20 years ago, are now significantly overloaded and have reached the end of …

United States The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed the paging services auction until 24 February, 2000. The FCC said in June that it would auction 2,499 licenses for paging. The …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communi-cations Industry Association and Paging Network Inc. last week submitted proposals to the Federal Communications Commission to take the proposed conditions of the SBC-Ameritech merger, “currently `wireless-free’ and …

Just three months after entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Conxus Communications Inc. Friday abruptly shut off its entire network and ceased all operations, leaving some 80,000 voice and text paging …

In yet another paging industry alliance aimed at wirelessly enabling personal digital assistants, Glenayre Technologies Inc.’s Wireless Access Group said it plans to partner with JP Systems Inc. to jointly …

German telecom operator Mannesmann AG said it executed its option rights on shares of Italian mobile operator Omnitel, raising its stake in the company by 1.5 percent to 55 percent. …

MARINA DEL RAY, Calif.-Startek.com Inc. and Angell Communications Inc. have agreed to merge, according to a letter of intent both signed. The deal is expected to be complete by Nov. …

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 …

The next round in the fight to popularize voice paging has begun, this time in Latin America, as Mexican paging operator RadioFlash became the first carrier to launch a voice …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it has signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement with Puerto Rican paging carrier Celpage to extend PageMart’s Advanced Messaging network to the area. According to the …

SkyTel Communications Inc. introduced two new pagers branded by strategic partner eBay, an online trading and auction service firm, as part of a new paging service called “eBay a-go-go.” The …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced software that will turn down transmitter power levels when the user is not speaking into the handset, effectively increasing talk time by extending battery life …

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 …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Internet portal company Yahoo! Inc. added to its Yahoo! Everywhere strategy with the introduction of Yahoo! Mobile, which allows users to personalize the Yahoo!-based content and services they …

ATLANTA-LHS InfoCell Inc., a subsidiary of LHS Group Inc., announced Tele 2000, a BellSouth-owned and operated international property in Lima, Peru, chose LHS’ InfoCell ConVerge as its point-of-sale solution. Ernst …