GREENVILLE, S.C.-Conxus Communications Inc. will provide mobile voice messaging services to Arch Communications Group Inc., according to a definitive agreement.Conxus is deploying a nationwide narrowband personal communications services network in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The agreement calls for joint...
NEW YORK-CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Corp. "is on the threshold of making announcements" about deals to help some vendors finance the purchase of their wireless equipment by cash-poor, start-up American personal communications services providers, said Robert W. Stuart, managing director of the global telecommunications...
Financial catastrophe has MobileMedia Corp. in the news almost daily with talk of corruption, stockholder lawsuits and bankruptcy. But the company now faces heightened pressure from competitor Paging Network Inc., which aims to expose MobileMedia's violations of Federal Communications Commission rules.PageNet petitioned the FCC...
WASHINGTON-The cellular and paging industries experienced similar declines in revenue per subscriber and operating expenses this year. But despite jitters on Wall Street, the operating performance of most wireless companies remains strong, said Economic Management Consultant International Inc. in its report, "Financial Benchmarks in...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Embarc and Paging Partners Corp. launched the Street Line paging service to offer financial news and stock quotes from CNBC.Breaking news-including business, financial, national and international news-will be offered as part of the service. The service also will include frequent updates of...
DENVER-ProNet Inc. merged with Calpage and bought the assets of Strategic Products Corp. to provide a foundation for its West Coast operations. The transaction represents more than 45,000 paging units and regional 900 MHz paging spectrum in California, Nevada, Arizona and other western states.
Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company's wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director at AT&T Wireless Services...
WASHINGTON-If allowed to merge, British Telecommunications plc and MCI Communications Corp. promised to jump start local competition, keep interconnection prices low and promote the use of wireless technology for both fixed and mobile global service, according to its application for a merger.The joint company,...
Omnipoint Communications Inc. has been granted access to the New York Power Authority's structures and rights-of-way. Under the agreement, approved by the board of trustees of the New York Power Authority, Omnipoint will have access to the structures and rights-of-way to install equipment and...
L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at $75 million. The company expects the capacity increase for the southwestern Japanese region to...
Clinton II and greener pastures are generating more exits, some through the infamous revolving door.Bob McNamara, chief of the FCC's Private Wireless Division, is leaving the agency after 21 years to join Nextel Communications Inc. in McLean, Va.FCC antitrust guru James Olson is leaving...
Sprint PCS said software problems by one of its two equipment vendors will delay the launch of personal communications service in some markets by year's end, but the company still intends to roll out service in five to 10 markets by the end of...
LONDON-Frost & Sullivan has predicted the network operators sector of the European radio paging market will grow at a higher rate than the hardware sector.Revenues for the radio pager hardware market were $1.47 billion last year, while network operator revenues were $1.24 billion, according...
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Systems Inc. will provide statement presentment services to Metrocall, according to a five-year agreement.Metrocall will use IBS' statement design, graphics and targeted inserting capabilities to provide easy-to-read statements to its paging customers."After a thorough cost-benefit analysis, we found that...
ARDMORE, Pa.-A class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey against MobileMedia Corp. and certain of its former and current executives. It is the second class action lawsuit filed since the company made serious financial and operating concerns public...
I've noted before that vendors of the personal Air Communications Technology protocol-one of the newest contenders for two-way paging and messaging systems, and being implemented by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. over its nationwide two-way channels-have their work cut out for them since Motorola Inc.'s...
L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will be responsible for network solutions,...
A new Phantom low profile antenna was introduced by Antenex. The antenna has a wide bandwidth and low angle radiation pattern. It also has an element that reduces dropped calls and dead spots, the company said. It comes with Antenex's standard NMO style mounting...
Mike Lorelli will resign as president and chief executive officer of MobileMedia Corp., the latest in a chain of events that has shareholders, industry and Wall Street wary of the company's future.Lorelli, who was hired in September, said he opted to leave the company,...
AirNet Communications Corp. entered an agreement with the Thomsen Group of Denmark, appointing Thomsen as AirNet's authorized business representative in Denmark and certain Far Eastern countries. Thomsen will distribute AirNet's wireless broadband software-based infrastructure equipment, base stations and systems for the wireless local loop,...
NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast, according to participants in a panel Nov. 20 on wireless technology."No intelligent network platform is as reliable as a switch....
The paging sector's stock plunge this year is mostly a result of the large amount of money raised by "marginal players" in 1995, unexpected negative consequences of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology and the delays and failures of two-way messaging systems, according to a report...
FAIRFIELD, N.J.-Electronics Communications Corp. activated its own paging system making it a full-service paging carrier.Electronics Communications has licenses covering Long Island, Westchester and Rockland counties and metropolitan New York, New Jersey, lower Connecticut and downtown Philadelphia. The system uses a Glenayre 900 megahertz FLEX...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Ex Machina Inc. selected Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Messaging Transfer Protocol for its narrowband personal communications services network.WMtp is an interswitch protocol designed to support the performance demands of NPCS and the increasing capacity requirements of expanding paging networks, Glenayre said. It offers...
