paging

Affordable Message Center, a wireless reseller based in New York, introduced a bundled package service plan to its wireless and wireline wholesale customers that combines various elements of the company’s …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-RAM Mobile Data L.P. announced its RAMfirst Interactive Paging Service, which uses the Research In Motion Inter@ctive Pager, now is available to Connecticut Telephone customers. Connecticut Telephone boasts 65,000 …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has expanded its distribution arrangement with Eckerd Drug Stores Inc. for its paging products and services to be offered in an additional 1,126 locations-up from …

More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn’t found any takers, despite the growing success of iDEN-user Nextel Communications …

DENVER-Denver-based PageTap Inc. and Information Station Specialists of Zeeland, Mich., announced they will begin providing real-time information to travelers on the road. By using PageTap’s PT4-R, ISS is now able …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a five-year strategic alliance that will allow Alltel to offer its customers PageMart’s numeric and text-based paging services. Alltel is a …

A Federal Express drop-box pages a route driver letting him know that it received no packages that day and that a stop is not necessary. A beer distributor sends an …

BATON ROUGE, La.-C-block license holder Meretel Communications L.P. is expected this week to launch personal communications services in Baton Rouge, La., using dual-mode, dual-band Code Division Multiple Access handsets. Eatel …

Motorola Inc. last week released its third quarter financial results, which detailed the lower-than-expected performance of the company that was forecast in December. Earnings per share, previously expected to be …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service announced Oct. 2 the speculative grade ratings it assigned to $490 million in new debt securities that Rogers Cantel Inc., Canada’s largest wireless carrier, sold privately. …

NEW YORK-Metrocall Inc. last week launched a private sale of $150 million in senior subordinated notes due 2007 to repay partially the sum the paging provider has borrowed under a …

NEW YORK-Borrowing a tag line from a recently released report of the Paging Leadership Association, industry representatives and analysts say there is “no grim reaper for the beeper.” The association, …

One of the more significant developments in the paging industry this year was the announced merger between ProNet Inc. and Metrocall Inc., expected to create the second largest paging carrier …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee members sternly advised Federal Communications Commission chairman nominee William Kennard to rethink agency positions on federal pre-emption and wireless universal service funding and to stop dragging its …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-Brightpoint Inc. entered into an agreement with RAM Mobile Data to provide integrated order fulfillment for RAM’s new RAMfirst Interactive Paging Service. According to the agreement, Brightpoint is handling …

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas-GoPage Inc. announced it has established e-mail paging connections in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in the Grand Caymen Islands. The company now has its network overlay operating …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Inc. announced it signed its first Global System for Mobile communications contract in Central Asia with Daewoo Central Paging Cooperation, a wholly owned subsidiary of South Korea-based Daewoo, …

With all the focus on enhanced messaging services allowed by both broadband and narrowband personal communications services lately, the last several months have seen a number of technologies introduced that …

Once the industry’s dynamic duo of distribution, the relationship between paging carriers and paging resellers is no longer the love fest it once was. In paging’s early days, resellers were …

The whisper on Wall Street is turning into a roar. Suddenly, telecom stocks are “hot” again, springing back to life in recent weeks following a painful and prolonged two-year slump. …

Bell Atlantic Corp.’s Carrier Services has teamed up with Metrocall Inc. to launch a calling party pays numeric paging service. The four-month trial service will be available to residents of …

When Mark Feighner took the reins as president of GTE Wireless Corp. a little more than two years ago, his goal was to profitably grow the company in line with …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.’s Wireless Messaging Group said it successfully transmitted one-way and two-way paging messages concurrently using the same network infrastructure. During ReFLEX testing with PageMart Wireless Inc., Glenayre …

NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Ameritel Communications Inc., said it successfully sold its paging services over the QVC television program in the first of an Ameritel series on QVC. …

NEW YORK-Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Montreal, was expected to place privately last week a 10-year note issue of about $150 million to help finance its overseas ventures in cellular telephony, …