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WASHINGTON-Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) revamped his previously proposed bill aimed at strengthening and clarifying rules against electronic eavesdropping via scanners and other devices to include language that protects all wireless …

NEW YORK-TSR Paging Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., announced Oct. 29 it has closed on a new $175 million credit facility, which represents a $50 million increase over its existing facility. …

SEOUL, Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it signed a contract with Intermediate Circular Orbit Global Communications of the United Kingdom to supply 2 million Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite …

NEW YORK-QuickPhone, a subsidiary of Florida-based UC’NWIN, said it won a contract to supply prepaid wireless products to Genovese Pharmacies throughout the northeastern United States. QuickPhone and strategic partners Mobile …

WASHINGTON-The Senate last week confirmed Bill Kennard as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and approved three other agency nominees, but immediately put the new leadership on notice that it …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. received an order from Asia Paging Co. Ltd. to build a high-speed FLEX paging network with roaming capability in the central region of Taiwan.

In perhaps the biggest reseller default case ever, Paging Network Inc., PageMart Wireless Inc. and Metrocall Inc. all terminated their service agreements with San Jose, Calif.-based reseller EconoPage Inc., last …

Business and consumer market customers traditionally have been the focus of the paging industry’s marketing and sales efforts. But there is a hidden, some say ignored, segment of the population …

WASHINGTON-With all its internal struggles regarding the proposed new Federal Communications Commissioners reportedly solved, Congress was poised at press time to vote on the leaders of a new regime at …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-China’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications launched its FLEX-based Nationwide High Speed Paging Network in 11 provincial capital cities. The system uses high-speed paging systems from Glenayre Technologies Inc., …

CTIA clarifies role in standardization Dear Editor: As initiator of the CTIA Ad-Hoc Group on Phone-to-Vehicle Interfaces (VIF), I was disturbed to read in your Sept. 22 edition that CTIA …

NEW YORK-In what its chief executive, Gordon Kaiser, is calling a first, Cue Network Corp., Irvine, Calif., announced it will offer voice paging over FM subcarrier channels by mid-1998. Another …

Customers of two-way paging devices using WolfeTech Corp.’s PocketGenie software now will have access to the information services provided by InfoSpace, according to a strategic partnership announced between the two. …

NEW YORK-“Show me the money!” Flush with capital pouring in and looking for places to invest, that is exactly what Wall Street hopes to do for the wireless industry. “There …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-JTECH Inc., which manufactures on-premise paging systems for restaurants and other industries, said it acquired ServiceAlert Inc., a competing firm based in Colorado. ServiceAlert also manufactures paging systems …

Cord Communications Inc. selected Mark E. Reed to be its president and chief executive officer. Reed joins Cord from In Focus Systems, a multimedia projection systems company, where he was …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its international paging network is now operational, as a result of recent agreements with telecom companies in Mexico, Panama and El Salvador. These agreements-added to those …

RCR TOP 20 Paging Carriers The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest paging companies in the United States from survey responses and interviews …

Following a dismal second quarter financial performance that heralded an upper-management juggling act, Paging Network Inc. reported improved third-quarter results, with a net loss of $29.4 million, or 29 cents …

Although it has been months since AT&T Wireless Services Inc. dropped all plans for services using the personal Air Communications Technology advanced paging protocol, some talk remained about pACT Vendor …

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Telus Mobility-a subsidiary of Canada’s Telus Corp.-announced plans to expand its cellular, paging and private radio systems business by offering advanced digital personal communications services in Alberta sometime …

PHOENIX-TekNow Inc., announced that Ameritech Cellular Services has installed its PhenX Internet Paging Gateway to support corporate intranet e-mail-to-paging requirements. The PhenX IPG receives e-mail and Web-based messages and converts …

United States Cellular Corp. was once again the cash cow in Telephone and Data Systems Inc.’s family of wireless businesses during the third quarter. USCC’s net income increased 38.6 percent …

NEW YORK-To get a sense of where the narrowband personal communications services industry is headed in the United States, picture this: The presidents of American Paging Inc., Arch Communications Group, …

MCI Communications Corp., which last week found itself with a third suitor in GTE Corp., may finally have an opportunity to enter the wireless arena in more than a reseller …