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MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. said it is providing the billing and management system for the MTV Pager Network, which gives customers special information about MTV programming and events. The …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group released its network optimization design service, called Mozaik, to paging operators worldwide. Mozaik is a design tool to help paging providers determine …

Ike Kim, the number-one man at what is striving to be the number-two paging device manufacturing company, died earlier this month, ending a successful but far-too-short career in the wireless …

DENVER-U S West NewVector Group Inc., doing business as AirTouch Cellular, said it will be Ultimate Electronics’ sole provider of wireless products and services in all its retail stores where …

NEW YORK-In response to high levels of customer growth and usage, Nextel Communications Inc., McLean, Va., plans to accelerate construction of its nationwide network this year with at least $1.3 …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. reported a record-breaking fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31 in terms of proportionate net income, revenue and customer growth. Net income for the quarter showed …

In addition to $8.9 million AirNet Communications Corp. raised last year, the company announced it recently received $19.3 million in financing from a group of private investors, including a number …

WASHINGTON-The Asia-Pacific paging market is expected to expand from 87 million subscribers at year-end 1997 to more than 168 million in 2002, according to a new study, “Asia-Pacific Paging Markets: …

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MOSCOW-Russian paging operator Multi-Page and Seattle-based Segol RadioPAGE Inc., which operates a network in Russia, merged at the end of January in a move seen as heralding the impending consolidation …

CUSHCRAFT Cushcraft Corp. introduced the FRX450 UHF fiberglass omnidirectional antenna, which provides for transmission and reception of vertically polarized signals in the 450 MHz to 470 MHz frequency band. The …

A former Oregon reseller of Paging Network Inc. is suing the Oregon branch of the nation’s largest paging carrier, and is encouraging others to join it in a possible future …

SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.’s Asia-Pacific Paging Networks Division announced it signed an $8 million contract with Zhejiang P & T Radio Paging Corp. for a high-speed, multifrequency, roaming paging network. The network …

Coverage is king, says Iridium North America, which is aiming to help cellular and personal communications services operators offer wireless coverage anywhere in the world. Iridium L.L.C. is a Motorola …

Argentina Brightpoint Inc. is expanding its international operations with the formation of Brightpoint de Argentina S.A. and plans to establish Brightpoint France, said the company. As part of its Argentine …

The interconnection fight between paging carriers and local exchange carriers is far from over. LECs, wounded by a Federal Communications Commission Common Carrier Bureau letter denying them the right to …

WASHINGTON-While call blocking may be the easiest and quickest way of preventing pay-phone operators and long-distance carriers from charging excessive access fees on toll-free calls to messaging providers, all three …

NEW YORK-Like Sam Ginn, its chairman and chief executive officer, AirTouch Communications Inc. is on a roll, aided by those two key components of success-good luck and good timing. Ginn …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, which now projects $30 billion from spectrum auctions during the next decade despite free-falling license prices, plans to seek legislation from Congress this year to sell 36 …

As the economic crisis in Asia continues, residents there have been forced to find ways to budget their expenses-which could prove a limited boon to the region’s paging industry. Paging …

WASHINGTON-This week’s second anniversary of the 1996 telecom act is being greeted with heightened skepticism by industry, policy makers and the public about whether the promise of competition, lower prices …

By focusing on technology strengths and weaknesses, industry veteran Kevin Reynolds believes his newly created consulting firm-PCS Maze Inc.-can safely guide a company through the technical labyrinth that causes so …

SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. said it purchased 20 towers in Fort Smith and Little Rock, Ark., for $8.7 million from the Texas-based paging company, Teletouch Communications. This acquisition brings Pinnacle’s …

Almost one year after filing for bankruptcy, MobileMedia Corp. announced plans to emerge from Chapter 11 restructuring by mid-year, and as part of that effort has filed a reorganization plan …

NEW YORK-Along with its fourth-quarter earnings release Jan. 28, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago, reported a lawsuit challenging its plan to repurchase publicly held stock in three of its …