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Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. initiated coverage on the paging industry last month, issuing a report titled “Where’s the Beep?”-written by company vice president Cynthia Motz. In the report, the …

WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee last week passed legislation to inject more competition in the international satellite market. The bill, co-sponsored by House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) and Rep. …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced it has completed the acquisition of RAM Broadcasting Corp., and in doing so has assumed full operational control of Woodbridge, N.J.-based RAM Mobile Data USA Ltd., which …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) earlier this month asked President Clinton to help resolve a dispute over whether the Federal Communications Commission violated the 1997 budget law by licensing vacant frequencies …

NEW YORK-Globo Comunicagues e Participagues S.A., doing business as Globopar, plans to sell a $300 million issue of 10-year senior unsecured notes to refinance a bridge loan and short-term debt. …

NEW YORK-France Telecom S.A., the second-largest telecommunications company in Europe, announced March 18 it had returned to profitability by the Dec. 31 close of its fiscal year after incurring losses …

NEW YORK-“The challenge for the paging industry is to reinvent itself so it can become a free cash-flow business, to put the brakes on capital expenditures and drive up revenues …

NEW YORK-The merger spree in the paging industry during the past few years currently is at a lull, but acquisition activity is not over by any means. “Among the top …

Unity Communications Inc. of Jackson, Miss., is in the process of taking its one-stop shopping idea nationally. Having offered cellular, paging, long-distance and Internet services on one bill in Jackson …

Socket Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group announced an agreement to develop and support software that will allow FLEX-enabled palmtop computers powered by the Windows CE operating …

DENVER-The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is considering a plan to provide a new area code just for wireless phones and pagers despite a 1995 ruling from the Federal Communications Commission …

The differences between paging resellers and carriers is perhaps most evident when looking at what happens to paging resellers that offer customers prepaid multiyear or lifetime contracts. The plan seems …

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Metromedia International Group Inc. said it would pay in cash the previously announced dividend of about 91 cents per share on its 7.25-percent cumulative convertible preferred stock March …

Much hype has surrounded information services and what they mean to the future of the paging industry. By providing customers with information-such as news, sports scores and stock quotes-carriers hope …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced the nationwide rollout of its new Pager ID service, which identifies the name of the person placing the call to the pager, as well as a …

TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. announced SingTel Paging launched commercial two-way paging and telemetry data service in Singapore using the Nexus system. SingTel is upgrading its one-way system, which …

Paging carriers and industry analysts alike believe one of the biggest struggles facing the industry is that it needs to change its image in the mind of the consumer. For …

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Spectrum Resources Towers L.P. acquired the tower assets of PB Industries, consisting of 20 towers located in Oklahoma with tenants including Western Wireless Corp., Sprint Spectrum L.P., Paging …

TEMPE, Ariz.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said Auto-Owners Insurance Co. of Lansing, Mich., selected its National Services Division to provide messaging services for its insurance agents across the United States. The …

WASHINGTON-The auction of Phase II 220 MHz licenses is scheduled to begin May 19, but that date could be pushed back at least 30 days because no bidder’s package has …

VIENNA, Va.-Ventera Corp. announced it will build an Internet-based software application to track and report key engineering data for Metrocall Inc.’s nationwide paging network. Ventera said the software will capture, …

STAMFORD, Conn.-Metromedia International Telecommunications Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Metromedia International Group Inc., said Communicatii Nationale Mobile S.A., a joint venture between the Metromedia parent company and an unnamed …

BEIJING-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it signed a $9.6-million contract with Shandong Provincial Posts and Telecommunications Administration to expand Shandong’s high-speed paging network. Under terms of the contract, Glenayre’s 280 MHz …

Due to an editing error, the comments of an unidentified California paging reseller in the Feb. 23 “WireLink extensions benefit resellers” story were incorrectly attributed to WireLink Communications Inc. President …

Most analysts and industry insiders agree the future of the paging industry lies in providing value-added services to the current paging subscriber base. For some that means upgrading from numeric …