paging

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced two new ways to send messages to AT&T Digital PCS, AT&T PocketNet and AT&T Paging customers. The new services, which include Internet e-mail messaging …

Southern California’s emergence as a burgeoning wireless hub was reinforced when yet another new telecom company, Kokusai Communications Systems Inc., opened its world headquarters last month in San Diego. Kokusai …

NEC Corp.’s Wireless Message Terminals division recently reduced its sales staff, an action the company and some carriers say reflects the paging industry’s changing structure. “We’re changing internally to better …

Motorola Inc.’s European Paging Subscriber Division said Deutsche Funkruf Gesellschaft of Germany plans to deploy a FLEX-based paging network this summer, breaking from European Union recommendations for using a different …

MobileMedia Corp. delisted its Class A common stock from the Nasdaq National Market June 3 because it cannot meet certain financial reporting requirements of securities laws, which are necessary to …

New York investment banker Lehman Brothers Inc. filed a class action lawsuit against ProNet Inc. in Supreme Court for the state of New York, seeking participation in ProNet’s proposed settlements …

WASHINGTON-Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen last week blasted the new universal service structure, urging Senate lawmakers to send the Federal Communications Commission “a clear message that existing injustices …

Euristix Ltd. and Tellabs are working together to develop Tellabs’ Titan 550 Element Management System using the Euristix Raceman EMSX platform development toolkit based on Windows NT. The companies said …

Congress last week approved an $8.6 billion disaster relief bill. Relief, that is, for states throughout the country humbled, yet not humiliated, by floods, tornadoes, mud slides and other natural …

GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. has signed a contract for its wireless prepaid calling service with Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, which will offer the service to more than …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Glenayre Technologies Inc. reached agreements with several Latin American companies while participating in a trade mission in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. William Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, led …

In the beginning, it was Reed Who? But by last week’s resignation announcement, the only question was, When? Arguably the most controversial, yet most constructive Federal Communications Commission chairman in …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Paging Network Inc. selected Digital Link as its wide area network access vendor to supply Simple Network Management Protocol products for the backbone network of PageNet’s VoiceNow paging service. …

WASHINGTON-Congress is slowly backtracking on spectrum auctions as a source of revenue in the bipartisan balanced budget plan, a retreat spurred by recent falling wireless license prices and financial troubles …

ATLANTA-Global Affinity Paging Inc. formed a partnership with Houston Spectrum Associates to provide local, regional and nationwide numeric and alphanumeric paging services in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., through Global Affinity’s …

RCR Publications Inc. recently hired two new reporters. George Lurie has been hired as a reporter, covering the cellular beat, and Antony Bruno has been chosen to cover the paging …

NEC America Inc. in June will demonstrate its total network solution for utility network applications at the Utilities Telecommunications Council national convention in Portland, Ore. The demonstration will include four …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has asked interested parties to comment on a dispute between Southwestern Bell Telephone and a handful of paging carriers regarding interconnection compensation between local exchange carriers …

WASHINGTON-Two seemingly unrelated national policy actions highlight how regulators and lawmakers may be overlooking and underestimating the value of wireless technology in the new telecommunications paradigm that stresses competition and …

CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc.’s board of directors declared a second quarter 1997 dividend of about 11 cents per common and series A common share. Payment will be made June …

Affordable Message Center is introducing Simplicity One today, a prepaid one-number service that offers users protection from over-calls on their cellular phone bill. “You are protecting your cellular number,” explained …

DALLAS-ProNet Inc. has received a contract to provide paging services for the Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. The three-year agreement, which begins immediately, will make services available to more than 340 Columbia …

TRENTON, N.J.-GoPage Inc. installed a satellite connection to Midstates Paging in Trenton, N.J., which will provide Internet access to three carriers. Paging carriers can join the GoPage network by providing …

After experiencing continual poor financial results, American Paging Inc. announced last month it would halt spending on narrowband personal communications services development to fix its core business. The company also …

You know, the one thing I always liked about the men and women who pioneered the wireless industry is they were plain, ordinary folk, a mostly straight-talking, blue-collar-leaning breed that …