Editor's Note: 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 with industry contacts. Rankings are based on carriers' reported total number of paging subscribers.Because of industry consolidation and...
SkyTel Corp. introduced the SkyTel Messenger for Windows CE, a software messaging system developed by SkyTel in conjunction with Microsoft Corp.Jackson, Miss.-based SkyTel said the software messaging application, which is scheduled to be available late this year, will be marketed with handheld personal computers...
NEW YORK-In a very successful initial public offering, Deutsche Telekom AG, the German government's telecommunications monopoly, went public Nov. 18.The IPO consisted of 600 million shares sold to outsiders and another 23 million to Deutsche Telekom employees. The total number of shares offered for...
The board of directors of AirTouch Communications Inc. declared Dec. 15 the record date for a contingent payment on its 6 percent Class B mandatorily convertible preferred stock, Series 1996. The contingent payment amount will be the volume-weighted average trading price of the shares...
NEW YORK-In a very successful initial public offering, Deutsche Telekom AG, the German government's telecommunications monopoly, went public Nov. 18.The IPO consisted of 600 million shares sold to outsiders and another 23 million to Deutsche Telekom employees. The total number of shares offered for...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. will acquire the infrastructure equipment group of Pacific Communication Sciences Inc., according to a definitive agreement. ADC said it will purchase the group in a cash deal valued at $23 million."To realize our goal of expanding ADC's presence in mobile and...
RadioCall Service and Systems Inc. is a small California paging company too small to be acquired, but big enough to survive-and even thrive-in a messaging market dominated by a few big players.Core one-way paging is the focus of RadioCall. The company's recipe for success...
Using the existing Ardis two-way data network, ConectUS Wireless Communications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., plans to launch two-way nationwide messaging services next month, initially targeting business users.ConectUS is a subsidiary of Executive Page, which is an Ardis master reseller and distributor of products for...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. and LG Electronics have entered a three-year agreement to bring FLEX paging technology to South Korea. LG Electronics said it will purchase more than 2000 units of Glenayre's GL-T8531 high speed transmitters and GL-C2000 controllers. Glenayre values the contract at...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group licensed its FLEX technology to paging infrastructure manufacturers EcoSoft GTCO and Tecnomen Oy. EcoSoft said it will use the technology to make inexpensive paging terminal equipment for Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States markets. Tecnomen Oy plans to...
NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. formed a wholly owned subsidiary, PC Telecommunications Inc., to resell cellular and paging services in markets adjacent to the company's cellular systems.The company said it plans to begin reselling wireless services in the northern portions of the New York metropolitan statistical...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc., a wholesale provider of one-way paging network services, has completed its fifth technical control center for its North Central region including Michigan, Ohio and parts of Indiana. The center, located in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will serve as the engineering operations hub...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Advanced Signal Inc. has licensed the entire FLEX family of paging protocols from Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group. Advanced also is developing test equipment for the narrowband personal communications services market.The test equipment, named SIGNALpro, allows users to characterize the outbound...
MobileMedia Corp. reported a third quarter net loss of $188.1 million and did not meet its scheduled interest payment on its publicly traded bonds. The events prompted a review by Moody's Investors Service for possible downgrade. Smith Barney Inc. remains lukewarm to positive on...
An independent Louisiana telephone company is among those launching the second wave of personal communications service systems in the country.Meretel Communications L.P. has received a multimillion loan from the Rural Telephone Finance Corp. and signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to supply infrastructure...
WASHINGTON-The proposed merger of MCI Communications Corp. and British Telecommunications plc promises to bring plenty of cash and plenty of new services to the global telecommunications arena, but wireless subscribers to MCI's paging and cellular operations here won't notice much of a change for...
When Metrocall Inc. reported third quarter earnings, the company also said it has shifted its course toward increasing revenue per unit and away from expansion in the reseller channel.For the last several years, Metrocall has pursued an aggressive course of acquiring carriers and signing...
The Nov. 25 issue of RCR will feature the Top 20 Paging carriers. If your company would like to be included in our survey, fax the following information to Lynnette Luna, reporter, at (303) 733-9941, or call (303) 733-2500.Company nameMailing addressPhone, fax numbersNumber of...
Texas Instruments Inc. announced the availability of its FLEX two-chip chipset, which with its built-in analog to digital converter sets the product apart from others, said the company.Motorola's Paging Products Group, which designed the FLEX protocol, stated plans to use the chipset, while Ex...
WASHINGTON-Certain parts of the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local exchange rules dealing with negotiations between local exchange carriers and commercial mobile radio service operators will not be included in the current stay that prevents FCC pricing restrictions from being implemented.Responding to an emergency...
Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile will use Corsair Communications' PhonePrint fraud prevention system in its A-side cellular markets. Installation already has started in Connecticut. PhonePrint uses radio frequency fingerprinting to detect cloning in local service areas and large roaming markets.360
Deutsche Telekom AG said it made its mobile arm an economically independent subsidiary three years ago in anticipation of the upcoming public offering of the Deutsche Telekom Group's stock.As one of the world's largest telecommunications companies moves slowly from government to public ownership, the...
