THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.-ConectUS Wireless Communications filed a trademark infringement suit Thursday against Greenville, S.C.-based Conxus Communications Inc., which changed its name from PCS Development Corp. in October."Their new name is confusingly similar to ours," said ConectUS President Dennis Scully. "We have been using the...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Messaging Group introduced a universal paging platform designed to support a new suite of European and Japanese protocols.The GL3210 Glenayre Multiprotocol Paging Platform supports the European ERMES-I4 and pan-European Paging protocols for roaming. It also supports the Japan Information...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. suffered a 22 percent stock drop after reporting a fourth quarter decline in net income. The stock closed Thursday at $15.38, down $4.25 from $19.63 a day earlier.Net income for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 1996, was $16.7 million,...
WASHINGTON-Digital subscriber growth surpassed analog subscriber growth in the specialized mobile radio industry last year for the first time in history, according to a study prepared by The Strategis Group and the American Mobile Telecommunications Association.The SMR industry added 210,000 digital subscribers, the report...
Numeric paging service, which for years was the bread and butter for paging resellers, could be their doom in a market of increased competition, decreased rates and customer savvy.Industry disagrees about who is responsible-carriers, or resellers or both-for the drastic price drops, but agrees...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. completed the acquisition of Mercury Paging & Communications Inc. and its affiliated companies. Mercury Paging is a New York-based paging operator that provides coverage of radio common carrier 931.3125 MHz paging licenses in New Jersey, New York and Southern Connecticut.Preferred Networks...
The Personal Communications Industry Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission regarding universal service fund reform. PCIA agreed with the FCC that it must implement access charge and universal service fund reform concurrently to avoid local exchange carriers receiving double recovery of costs....
Vodafone Group plc agreed to purchase Data Bank of Greece S.A. through its subsidiary Vodafone Europe Holdings Ltd. Vodafone said the principal asset of Data Bank is a 10 percent share in Panafon S.A., one of two Global System for Mobile communications operators in...
NEW YORK-Corporate bond default rates likely will rise moderately in 1997 after falling in 1996 to their lowest level in 15 years, according to Moody's Investor's Service Inc.Last year, 1.6 percent of speculative grade debt issuers defaulted, less than half the 3.3 percent amount...
PICKERING, Ontario, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it plans to acquire Mobilair Communications, the wireless communications division of Autostock Inc., to expand its MiKE specialized mobile radio network throughout Quebec.Clearnet said it expects to pay about $19.5 million, mostly in cash, for Mobilair. The specific...
Nearly a year ago, Glynn Ingram had an idea. He wanted to provide bundled telecommunications services to small businesses and consumers on one bill.So he and a few colleagues from MobileComm formed Unity Communications Services and hit the Mississippi roads to share the idea...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's balanced budget plan calls for $36 billion from expanded auctions over the next five years, a projection that raises key wireless policy questions.The initiative, which includes selling toll-free 888 telephone numbers but is otherwise vague, was included in the $1.7 trillion...
MobileMedia Corp. sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, received a commitment to borrow $200 million and said its service to customers will not be affected as the company restructures finances and operations.But things don't look so good from the other side of the fence.Resellers charge...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group said Rhode & Schwarz Bick Mobilfunk GmbH will expand its product offerings to include FLEX paging systems.
The paging systems manufactured by R & S Bick Mobilfunk will be available by mid-year, the company said.
Greg Nelson, vice...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Messaging Group received an order for paging infrastructure equipment from ProNet Inc. Glenayre values the contract at $3.5 million.According to the agreement, Glenayre will provide its GL-T8500/T8600 transmitters, GL-C2000 controllers and GL-S2164 satellite receivers to expand ProNet's network coverage....
Wireless Access Inc. said it is volume shipping its AccessLink two-way wireless messaging device to SkyTel Corp. The AccessLink is a narrowband personal communications services device that allows end users to send, receive and reply to e-mail. AccessLink also allows users to create custom...
WASHINGTON-The fiscal 1998 budget President Clinton plans to unveil this week will propose expanded auction authority and at least one major education program underwritten by wireless license sales, despite uncertainty about revenue projections in a marketplace already flooded with spectrum, service providers and debt.An...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group completed a 900 MHz FLEX protocol-based paging system for National Network Communications Inc.National Network Communications will use the infrastructure to support its IWARN immediate warning system. The IWARN center notifies the public of emergency situations such as...
NEW YORK-If the conventional wisdom holds true that a rising tide lifts all boats, then wireless companies seeking to go public this year can take comfort in the results of the 1997 Super Bowl.For 27 of the 30 previous years, a win by a...
I had my own little paging fiasco this week.Cindy B. called. She wasn't happy. Cindy sells auto rental insurance and works with many car dealers in Denver. She bought an alphanumeric pager on Monday so she wouldn't miss any business from car salesmen. She...
U.S. Communications Inc. has spent $5 million during the last four years forming an in-store system designed to entice Kmart shoppers to sign up for wireless service."We've got it set up so they can just come in and buy it, like buying a toaster,"...
This exclusive RCR five-part series highlights the results of the 1997 National Wireless Opinion Poll conducted by TynanGroup, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., in December. Six hundred households were surveyed. The margin of error associated with the results is 4 percent.The Wireless ParadoxLove me,...
The Failure Group Inc. acquired Broadcast Communications Systems Inc., a company that designs, installs and maintains wireless communications networks. Broadcast Communications has erected communications towers and provided related training and technical services since 1981. For the last two years it has specialized in personal...
WASHINGTON-Utility and energy companies want a federal court to force the Federal Communications Commission to process 50,000 multiple address system applications pending since 1992, a delay regulators say is necessary to consider auctioning the spectrum.UTC, a trade group representing electric, gas and water utilities...
