BEIJING—China Unicom plans to significantly upgrade its paging service with new information and data services, such as e-mail.The number of paging subscribers in China is constantly dropping as more people switch to mobile phones. The company's paging subscribers fell by 6.2 million in the...
HELSINKI, Finland—Tecnomen said it was awarded a contract valued at 700,000 euros (US$662,900) by Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) for paging system expansions in the country. Tecnomen will replace old transmitters with its HiQ transmitters.Delivery will take place in the second quarter of 2002...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Paging and messaging carrier Metrocall Inc. announced it reached a pre-negotiated plan of reorganization in Chapter 11 bankruptcy with its creditors, and will file the plan with the bankruptcy court early next month.The move comes as no surprise. Metrocall has for the past...
BEIJING—In the first four months of 2002, China added 21,836,000 mobile-phone subscribers, the People's Telecommunications newspaper reported in its 22 May edition.The total number of mobile subscribers is now at 170 million. The number of fixed-line subscribers is 190 million. The number of paging...
DENVER, United States—A potentially important deal between Motorola and Multitone Electronics has fallen through, Motorola confirmed, which leaves the paging and messaging landscape still more uncertain.Last year, Motorola announced it would exit the paging and messaging industry altogether, and would stop making its one-...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—A potentially important deal between Motorola Inc. and Multitone Electronics has fallen through, Motorola confirmed, which leaves the paging and messaging landscape still more uncertain.Last year Motorola announced it would exit the paging and messaging industry altogether, and would stop making its...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—News from the nation's paging and messaging companies continues to fly, as one announced its plan of reorganization was approved by its bankruptcy court and another said it will withhold filing its quarterly 10-Q report due to "certain activities in process that, upon...
TORONTO—Roadpost Inc. said it will make three additions to its satellite product and services portfolio: the Iridium Global Paging Service; SatTalk II Aircraft Satellite Telephone System; and EuroCom Fixed Mount Unit.With Iridium Global Paging Service, travelers receive pages on a Motorola Satellite Series 9501...
BEIJING—The Hong Kong-listed arm of China Unicom posted first-quarter revenue of 8.35 billion yuan (US$1 billion), while China Mobile reported 23.35 billion yuan (US$2.82 billion).Revenue from China Unicom's mobile business was 6.65 billion yuan (US$804 million) for the first three months of the year,...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Motorola Inc. emerged the victor in its lawsuit against Paging America, which used Motorola's brand name and products in its e-mail spam campaign.In an Illinois federal court default judgement, Paging America must pay Motorola $100,000 in damages for counterfeiting and $100,000 for...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Sweden's Telia Mobile announced that it transfered its Minicall paging service to Generic Mobile Systems, which will begin running the service. Telia said it is part of the operator's streamlining efforts.Customers will still be able to use Minicall in the future, Telia said....
RESTON, Va.—Wireless data network operator Motient Corp. pulled off what could be considered a magic trick, considering the current economic situation and the dire troubles faced by other wireless data companies. The carrier will emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy without the aid of an...
SANTO DOMINO, Dominican Republic—Telecom company Tricom said it launched digital trunking services in Panama. The iDEN network is targeted at the corporate market and builds on the company's long-term plans to build a pan-regional Central American digital trunking network.Tricom said it has invested about...
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA) has decided to drop its annual trade show, global m-commerce user initiative and LifePage donor program and cut its skeletal staff by 20 percent as part of a major shakeup that officials said will enable it to...
WASHINGTON—The Personal Communications Industry Association has decided to drop its annual trade show, global m-commerce user initiative and LifePage donor program and cut its skeletal staff by 20 percent as part of a major shakeup that officials said will enable it to focus on...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—Korean wireless device maker HuneTec Co. Ltd., which licensed Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX two-way paging technology, is the latest in a string of companies seeking to fill the gap Motorola left in the U.S. paging market after its departure.HuneTec said it plans to...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Conexant Systems Inc. introduced a new family of power amplifier modules targeting current and next-generation wireless infrastructure transmitter applications.The CX65100 series is designed to meet the performance, functionality and cost requirements of developing cellular and paging networks, personal communications systems, wireless local...
CLAREMONT, Calif.—Wireless software developer WolfeTech Development Corp. announced its PocketGenie application is now available on SkyTel two-way paging devices. PocketGenie offers users access to more than 200 real-time information services including stock quotes, driving directions, restaurant guides, movie schedules, package tracking, news, sports, phone...
SAN DIEGO—One Voice Technologies Inc. will demonstrate its MobileVoice Messaging solutions in the Sony-Ericsson Mobile Communications booth at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando. One Voice will be showing its MobileVoice Messaging, which allows users to send e-mails, SMS, instant and paging messages through voice-to-text...
ALBANY, N.Y.—Telecommunications industry billing and customer care systems provider CommSoft Inc. released a new version of its flagship CommVergence product.CommVergence 8.0 allows customers to provide for wireless services in addition to wireline, cable, ISP and paging functionality. It includes: the capability to add and...
Motorola's Personal Communications Sector announced it is selling off its core paging device product lines to integrated wireless networking (IWN) and wireless messaging company Multitone Electronics.Motorola said it will transfer its FLEX, ReFLEX and POCSAG paging protocol-based devices to U.K-based Multitone, which will take...
PHOENIX, United States—After years of quiet work, Space Data finally officially announced its plan to operate as a carrier's carrier by using weather balloons to offer wireless services to vast rural areas.The company said its service will allow wireless paging and cellular carriers to...
