PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Aquis Communications Group Inc. acquired the assets of Highland Paging Inc., which provides wireless messaging and data services in West Virginia, Tennessee and southern Virginia.The company has about 12,500 subscribers. The value of the deal was not disclosed.
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 sell its paging business to a group of private Texas investors for $5.2 million....
SARASOTA, Fla.-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. Global Signal was negotiating a new lease with USA Mobility for the sites...
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 sell its paging business to a group of private Texas investors for $5.2 million....
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. Global Signal was negotiating a new lease with USA Mobility for the sites under...
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 service from Nextel Communications Inc.Specifically, USA Mobility said it will sell Palm Inc.'s Treo...
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 following the Supercomm show this week in Chicago. In general, the firm said news out...
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 stock, preferred stock, depositary shares or warrants.A shelf registration allows a company to file...
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 and negligible power in adjacent sidebands, an xMax transmitter and receiver pair with ground-level antennas...
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 it will meet Phase II of the Federal Communication Commission's E-911 mandate, which requires...
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 the efforts of those people who have made significant contributions to advance wireless telecommunications....
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 were not disclosed."We continue to add healthcare facilities throughout our footprint based on our...
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 already had a good thing going generating hundreds of billions of dollars annually from...
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 acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., making Cingular Wireless the nation's largest carrier, as...
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, a public company involved in professional media, news distribution and market research. Levin has...
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 was interesting for its policy and precedential import, not to mention the $41 billion...
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 and little attention. The new entity-USA Mobility Inc.-will be based in Alexandria, Va., home...
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 and little attention.
The new entity-USA Mobility Inc.-will be based in Alexandria, Va., home to...
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 is poised to deploy technology capable of delivering the kind of real-time alerts to...
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 for a year to head up a transition team that will name his successor. "We...
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 has used it since May. The announcement marks Glenayre's most significant effort since the...
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 for a year to head up a transition team that will eventually name his successor....
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 operate multiple applications on one platform, was approved for interoperability with Nortel's GSM/GPRS wireless infrastructure....
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 divested and restructured, and stock valuations have fallen and risen like the tides. Meanwhile,...
