paging

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Fujitsu Software Corp. extended its ByeDesk Link wireless server software to Metrocall Inc., PageMart Wireless Inc. and Paging Network Inc., as well as to PageNet reseller MCI Communications …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced a two-year strategic marketing agreement with Washington Gas, under which the utility will offer Metrocall pagers and services to its customers in the Washington, D.C., area …

NEW YORK-AirTouch Communications Inc., San Francisco, plans the public sale of about $721 million in notes denominated in German marks in order to retire bank debt and commercial paper. Moody’s …

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. announced it signed a definitive agreement to sell its 163 transmission towers to Pinnacle Towers Inc. The $170 million sale allows MobileMedia to retain ownership of …

Phoenix Wireless Group Phoenix Wireless Group announced several new appointments. Christopher Bear was named director of engineering. He joins the company from AccessLine Technologies Inc., where he was director of …

I was once told that Dallas has such a great highway system because during the oil bust in the mid ’80s, business people ruled the local government bodies and did …

LOS ANGELES-In Touch Paging USA announced it signed an agreement with the New Mexico State Athletic Association for paging services and distribution. Under terms of the agreement, the association will …

Australia The Australian Communications Authority said it prepared a recommendation to the Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts, for a nationwide reallocation of spectrum in the 3.410 …

MALAYSIA-Tecnomen Malaysia announced it signed a contract to deliver a multimessaging system for an 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network owned by its subsidiary Telekom Cellular. Under the …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it began shipping the Synapse Pager Card, which allows wireless messaging on 3com Corp.’s PalmPilot Organizer. The card-developed by PageMart, 3Com and Motorola Inc.-upgrades all Pilot, …

Second-tier wireless companies are hot properties, helping to push wireless stock prices past the Standard &Poor’s index. Centennial Cellular Corp. earlier this month became the third second-tier cellular carrier to …

With the lifespan of paging devices getting ever shorter, and with new advanced paging devices flooding the marketplace, paging carriers must be extra careful in their purchasing patterns. Kevin Reynolds, …

NEW YORK-Comunicacion Nextel de Mexico SA executives were scheduled to meet late last week with officials of the Mexico Federal Telecommunications Commission, or Cofetel, to resolve an apparent disagreement about …

Motorola Inc. last week announced its long-awaited plan for realigning the company along with another quarter of depressing financial results. Ending its “warring tribes” way of doing business, Motorola announced …

NEW YORK-Managistics Group Inc., Rockville, Md., announced Nokia Corp. selected it to optimize Nokia’s global supply chain operations. Nokia’s goal is to increase customer service while gaining significant efficiencies along …

A group of smaller, paging manufacturers impudently are challenging the pager dominance of the 800-pound gorilla that is Motorola Inc. by creating products with unique features designed to set themselves …

Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd., said the company. Comverse said it is the first vendor exclusively dedicated to providing …

Formed to take advantage of the current round of consolidation in the paging industry, a fairly new company announced its first purchase-the paging assets and operations of Bell Atlantic Corp. …

WASHINGTON-Key lawmakers are expected soon to ask Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard to lift burdensome common carrier regulations off the backs of specialized mobile radio operators, something the agency …

NEW YORK-At least four class-action shareholder lawsuits were filed between June 25 and July 1 against Premiere Technologies Inc., an Atlanta-based company that provides enhanced services to paging and other …

WASHINGTON-When the Galaxy IV satellite went berserk in May and left most paging carriers and their customers holding the bag, the Federal Communications Commission said the Network Reliability and Interoperability …

DALLAS-NEC America Inc. announced it selected Preferred Paging and Wireless as a mail-order supplier for the Beacon Data Pager, a wireless personal digital assistant with full alphanumeric messaging capabilities. The …

The larger players in the paging industry have bellied up to the consolidation table and, with fork and knife in hand, are poised to dig in. Still digesting its acquisition …

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will resell Conxus Communications Inc.’s Pocketalk voice paging services in the Philadelphia area. Pocketalk is based on Motorola Inc.’s FLEX technology. TSR said …

FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Communications Corp. announced it launched a prepaid paging service package called The MobileComm 6-Pak, which includes a numeric pager, six months of local service, activation fee and …