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Global Signal Inc. signed long-term master antenna site leases with USA Mobility Inc., opening the door for USA Mobility to lease space on sites owned or leased by Global Signal. …

TYLER, Texas-Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it will get out of the paging business to focus on its global positioning system tracking, telematics and homeland-security services. The carrier said it will …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Paging company USA Mobility Inc. announced it will resell Sprint Corp. wireless service and phones to business customers. USA Mobility currently counts around 5 million paging subscribers and sells …

The following wireless companies had ratings changes or information notes from financial services and investment banking firms this week. Robert W. Baird made several changes within its telecom coverage universe …

SARASOTA, Fla.-Global Signal Inc. filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that calls for the company to sell up to $1 billion in debt securities, common …

SARASOTA, Fla.-xG Technology L.L.C. said it conducted its first long-range wireless test of its xMax radio-frequency signaling technique that aims to address spectrum overcrowding issues. Using a VHF paging channel …

BERWYN, Pa.-Location services company True Position released a new service it said will allow rural wireless carriers to outsource wireless location applications. TruePosition will host the location offering, and said …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News announces that Wayne Schelle has been inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame for 2005, now in its sixth year. The Hall of Fame recognizes …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Clove Lakes Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Staten Island, New York announced it will purchase paging and messaging devices from Aquis Communications Group Inc. Financial terms of the agreement …

WASHINGTON-Homeland security-as an overarching national policy and an omnipresent mindset created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks-has been a mixed blessing for a wireless industry which …

Editor’s Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past 12 months. By successfully closing the …

LONDON-Operating system company Symbian Ltd. announced David Levin, the company’s chief executive officer, will leave the post at the end of March. Levin will then head United Business Media plc, …

You couldn’t really say the big mobile-phone and paging mergers of 2004 had folks on the edge of their seats or challenged crackerjack government antitrust lawyers. The former at least …

WASHINGTON-The $275 million paging merger of No. 1 Arch Wireless Inc. and No. 2 Metrocall Holdings Inc. has closed, following favorable U.S. review of a deal that drew no opposition …

WASHINGTON-The $275 million paging merger of No. 1 Arch Wireless Inc. and No. 2 Metrocall Holdings Inc. has closed, following favorable U.S. review of a deal that drew no opposition …

WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration weathers criticism from Democrats over delays in modernizing the nation’s emergency warning system and insists help is on the way, a small GSM carrier in Wisconsin …

Jay Kitchen, president and chief executive officer of PCIA, plans to retire from the industry trade group he has led for 10 years. Kitchen expects to stay with the group …

Mobile-messaging company Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced the commercial deployment of a new messaging service. Dubbed the Versera Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE), the service has been deployed in Atlanta, where MetroPCS …

Jay Kitchen, president and chief executive officer of PCIA, will retire, according to a release issued today by the wireless tower industry trade organization. Kitchen will stay with the group …

ATLANTA-Nortel Networks Ltd. has granted interoperability approval to a new mobile messaging product from Glenayre Technologies Inc. Glenayre’s Versera Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE), which was designed to cost-effectively deploy and …

Change has been afoot in the wireless tower industry. In the past 18 months, two of the industry’s five public players have gone through bankruptcy and returned, businesses have been …

Market share mayhem A two-way pager. A digital handset. A clamshell phone. A camera phone. All fine devices, and all devices whose introductions-and delays-have the power to change the fortunes …

The Federal Communications Commission normally would welcome a transaction of this kind, particularly in the post-9/11 world where having multiple telecom networks supports homeland security and economic objectives. But Leucadia …

WASHINGTON-Leucadia National Corp., the New York investment firm seeking to buy at least 50 percent of MCI Inc., is remaining mum on whether it backs the revamped long-distance carrier’s plans …

The Ricochet saga continues, with Falls Church, Va.-based YDI Wireless Inc. becoming Ricochet Networks Inc.’s fourth owner in two years. YDI bought the company for $3 million in cash, along …