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Several paging carriers released their second-quarter earnings reports last week, each revealing a continued effort toward achieving profitability and reducing debt. Metrocall Inc. capped off a busy second quarter with …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said the FBI arrested a San Diego teenager on charges of fraudulently creating unauthorized voice mail boxes and paging accounts on PageNet’s system. PageNet’s Systems Integrity Group …

NEW YORK-Nextel International Inc., Seattle, last week announced it launched commercial service of its integrated Digital Enhanced Network in Manila, Philippines, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Nextel International, a wholly …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission that it wanted to examine the annual budgets of the regional number portability administrators to ensure these entities …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced an aggressive rollout schedule for its facilities-based ReFLEX 25 guaranteed messaging service, with commercial service planned for areas of 15 additional states in August as well …

NEW YORK-Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent begun with publishing industry-related cases dating back to 1926, the Internal Revenue Service has determined a cellular provider must amortize, or spread out over …

MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. announced Paging Network Inc. has awarded it a three-year contract to handle all of PageNet’s reseller billing and provisioning nationwide. According to the agreement, PageNet …

Total paging subscribers will reach 68.9 million by year-end 2002, according to The Strategis Group report, “The State of the U.S. Paging Industry: 1998.” Of that number, 60.5 million are …

The government of Puerto Rico last week elected to stay with a bid made by a GTE Corp.-led consortium for Puerto Rico Telephone Co., after receiving a competing bid from …

Applied Cellular Technology Inc. formed an executive search committee to fill the position of president and chief executive officer. The committee, made up of several outside board members and Richard …

NEW YORK-For consumers, the important news out of a Motorola Inc. press conference July 21 is the broad suite of new wireless telecommunications devices the industry heavyweight debuted. For other …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has made several changes in its senior management team to address the integration of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Division. Thomas P. Matthews, the executive who …

Israel Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. said Paging Network Inc. has chosen the enhanced version of its Skystar Advantage very small aperture terminal satellite earth station, called NPCSkystar, for its narrowband …

Continuing his vision to build a worldwide telecom powerhouse, Craig McCaw and his gaggle of companies have agreed to share the cost of building Level 3 Communications’ national fiber optic …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it has promoted seven members of its senior management staff to manage the acquisition of American Paging Inc. Frank Lynch was promoted from senior …

Though the wireless industry remains an employee-driven market, signs indicate the intense demand for employees domestically may be slowing as companies are becoming cost sensitive under intense competition and merger-and-acquisition …

LONDON-The ERMES MoU Association, formerly called ERMES MoU, celebrated its new status as a legal entity with the launch of an ERMES paging system in Sweden, by telecom provider Telia, …

NEW YORK-Except for Geotek Communications Inc., wireless telephony companies here and abroad were conspicuous by their absence from the growing number of bond defaults that Moody’s Investors Service, New York, …

Metrocall Inc. announced a two-year interactive marketing agreement with America Online, by far the country’s largest Internet online service with more than 12 million members. Under the terms of the …

The paging industry experienced some greater-than-usual excitement in the second quarter that securities analysts at Toronto Dominion Securities Inc. believe will set the tone for the next stage of the …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its second-quarter results were affected by an unexpected drop in sales and manufacturing problems. Net income was reported at $77,000, or 0 cents per share, …

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Low-tier mobile phone service in Taiwan was opened to competition by the country’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications, with a tender announcement expected by December and commercial service rollout …

At a somewhat lavish press event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Motorola Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starfish Software Inc., a leading supplier …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced a nationwide roaming service for local and regional subscribers, as an alternative to full-time nationwide coverage. Local and regional subscribers who only travel occasionally can transfer …

COMSTREAM John F. Hodgson joined ComStream Corp. as vice president of human resources. Before ComStream, Hodgson held the same position with NextWave Telecom, San Diego, and prior to that with …