J.D. Power and Associates appointed Joanne Codella its new manager of wireless services. Her responsibilities will include managing syndicated and proprietary customer satisfaction studies in the wireless industry. Codella worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Panasonic Cellular before joining the company.360
The Northeast regional office of ProNet Inc. is raising prices for some of its smaller resellers to $5 per number. The company believes the rate increase may drive these resellers to do business with ProNet's larger, preferred resellers.The new rate, which goes into effect...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group and Radiomensaje, an Argentina-based national and regional paging service provider, signed an agreement to expand Radiomensaje's FLEX protocol-based infrastructure network.The new channel will be launched this month in Argentina, Motorola said."The current Argentina paging subscriber base is...
Uniden Corp. said its San Diego Research and Development Center entered into a licensing agreement to use Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless communications software platform that includes an Internet/intranet browser, server and mark-up language. Uniden said it plans to debut its first Unwired Planet-based product...
NEW YORK-Executives of American Paging Inc., Minneapolis, withstood a verbal beating from securities analysts last week after the company announced disappointing third quarter operating results."Paging is an area where we haven't done our job. We overlooked some things. It is possible to hit potholes...
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. obtained a $450 million senior credit facility provided by several financial institutions led by Chase Manhattan Bank. The company said it will use the facility to fund strategic growth initiatives targeted at the global communications market.The facility replaces a previous $300 million...
LAS VEGAS-Telemetry applications made a strong showing at last week's Wireless Apps '96 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.Skywire Corp. announced a trial to monitor several hundred soda vending machines throughout Southern Nevada for J.W. Costello Beverage Co. in partnership with cellular...
With its purchase of 355 kiosks in Sam's Club stores nationwide, MCI Communications Corp. has hands-on access to the consumer customer it seeks.Before obtaining entrance into Sam's, MCI's retail presence as a wireless reseller consisted of 37 storefronts. The stores originally belonged to Nationwide...
NEW YORK-Two days after MobileMedia Corp. announced it expected poor earnings for the third quarter, among other unfavorable news, a new group of its stockholders filed a class action lawsuit against the company and some of its officers and directors.Investors who purchased common stock...
NEW YORK-Paging Network Inc. announced Oct. 10 it sold privately a $500 million issue of notes to help repay existing bank debt and possibly to help finance its launch of VoiceNow, its first narrowband personal communications services offering. The issue was $150 million larger...
IRVINE, Calif.-One-Stop Wireless of America said it plans to offer wireless and prepaid cellular products beginning Nov. 15 in Los Angeles. The company said it plans to acquire retail stores in eight U.S. cities.The company also has acquired Internet Paging Systems, a wholesale and...
FLEX has been adopted en masse in the paging industry, at least in principle. In reality, the majority of U.S. one-way paging customers are POCSAG customers and carriers are in no hurry to eliminate the protocol.FLEX, designed by Motorola Inc., offers increased capacity and...
Editor's Note: The RCR editorial staff has compiled this list of terrestrial-based, two-way mobile data operators based on interviews with industry contacts. The chart is arranged alphabetically since many of the companies are just starting to offer services.Although most cellular and specialized mobile radio carriers...
NEW ORLEANS- Axcess Global Communications Corp. is charting a national footprint to deploy paging using Radio Broadcast Data Service FM-subcarrier frequencies. The company offers traditional paging, and online information services to its customers.To date, Axcess has licensed more than 90 FM broadcasters in 11...
NEW YORK-TSR Paging Inc. announced last week it closed on a new $125 million bank credit facility, arranged by First National Bank of Chicago acting as agent.The increased credit line will allow TSR to sustain its current pace of system buildout while allowing it...
NEW YORK-As expected from its advance warning last month, Motorola Inc. last week reported lower sales and earnings for the third quarter of 1996 when compared with the same period last year.Motorola said its sales for the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, declined 5...
Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its worldwide operations showed record subscriber growth during the third quarter, adding more than 62,000 new cellular subscribers. The company said this is its sixth record-breaking quarter. Millicom's subscriber base has grown from 208,807 in third quarter 1995 to...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. installed its Modular Voice Processing system for PennSel Communication Services, a division of R.F. Communications. PennSel will offer MVP services to its customers in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, the company said. The MVP system provides paging users with voice and fax...
CALABASAS, Calif.-Silverlake Communications Inc., a wireless software and services provider, said PageMart Inc. will sell its paging PC Software. Airsource Pro features e-mail forwarding, message scheduling, message tracking and group paging, as well as The Wireless Messaging Wizard, which walks the customer through the...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it has secured $1.66 billion in bank financing for the nationwide expansion of the company's integrated wireless communications network.The company also last week launched service in Boston, several weeks ahead of schedule. Nextel's network allows subscribers access to a...
MobileMedia Corp. marked the end of the third quarter with poor earnings, anticipated bank covenant violations, increased churn, a decrease in net new subscribers and potential trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. The grim news sent MobileMedia's stock for a dive.Such are the travails...
WASHINGTON-A three-judge circuit court panel last week continued to deliberate whether to extend a temporary stay of the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local competition rules. There are mixed industry opinions regarding how wireless carriers will be affected either way the court votes.Since the...
Regional Bell operating company U S West Communications Group said it hopes to bundle wireless services along with its local exchange service by 1997.The company is bidding for several licenses in the Federal Communications Commission's D-, E- and F-block auction of personal communications services...
HighwayMaster Communications Inc. announced it reached an agreement with SBC Communications Inc. for a $20 million equity investment in HighwayMaster. The company said SBC's initial investment will be in preferred stock, which is convertible into common stock at the rate of $12.50 per share....
