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Preferred Networks Inc. announced Victor L. Jackson has joined the company as vice president of interconnection. Prior to joining PNI, Jackson was director of interconnection for Paging Network Inc. His …

ALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced the United Kingdom government will grant it a nationwide European Radio Messaging Services channel. The company plans to build out the frequency in 1997, initially offering …

ASHINGTON-Pointing the way to continued success, the paging industry saw dramatic changes in 1995 as a series of firsts were accomplished by both carriers and manufacturers, said Economic Management and …

Senate lawmakers kept the heat on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week insofar as implementing the 1996 Telecom Act. Hundt didn’t let lawmakers force him into a corner, and artfully …

Paging Partners Corp. announced it was honored as New Jersey’s eighth fastest growing technology company at The New Jersey Technology Fast 50 Awards, held at Newark’s Gateway Hilton. Paging Partners …

NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. hit the ground running last fall with its nationwide SkyTel 2-Way paging launch, stumbled over unforeseen obstacles and has now dusted itself off and resumed …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Lotus Development Corp. announced a new version of its Lotus Notes Pager Gateway, a wireless messaging solution for Lotus Notes that allows customers to filter and forward messages to …

WASHINGTON-Despite Congressional passage of a six-year balanced budget plan last week that assumes $19.2 billion from auctions, telecom policymakers are growing concerned that fiscal and political forces are increasingly driving …

CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time. The Schaumburg, Ill., telecommunications equipment giant …

Motorola Inc. and Qatar Public Telecommunications Corp. announced the introduction of a high-speed, high-capacity paging service based on the FLEX protocol in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar. With the …

WASHINGTON-The industry group largely responsible for securing regulatory relief during the paging freeze has demanded that the Personal Communications Industry Association cease charging frequency coordination fees under interim paging rules. …

SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.’s FLEX protocol paging contracts totaled $10 million in China and Hong Kong. Motorola’s $3 million expansion contract with Suzhou Posts and Telecom Bureau adds six paging systems in …

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Andrew Corp. announced it has opened a sales office in Miami to process quotations and customer inquiries for the Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia and for U.S.-based companies that export …

Socket Communications Inc. has introduced PageSoft for ACT!, an add-on software package that employs existing wireless paging networks to deliver time-critical text and data to ACT! mobile users. ACT! is …

American Mobile Satellite Corp. appointed Patrick C. FitzPatrick vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining AMSC, FitzPatrick was senior vice president and CFO of PRC Inc., a wholly …

NEW YORK-PageMart Wireless Inc., a Dallas-based wireless messaging company ranked among the largest in the nation, went public June 13 with the sale of six million shares of common stock …

MEXICO CITY-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group announced that TelMex has signed a $5 million contract for Motorola’s FLEX protocol-based infrastructure systems equipment. TelMex has purchased 75 Nucleus base stations and …

Smaller C-block licensees with only a handful of permits say they’re confident of making a profitable business from the properties they have, disregarding naysayers who claim a wireless business must …

Everybody’s reacting to high-tech. Take Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, who in a recent speech hit on something profound yet obvious yet little understood (understandably so) in an America where jobs …

Tessco Technologies Inc. said it has acquired Cincinnati-based Cartwright Communications for cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The transaction is valued at $3.8 million plus the net value of …

The Federal Communications Commission was expected late last week or by today to give local and regional paging companies further relief from the paging freeze in response to lobbying by …

WASHINGTON-Following on the heels of a recent Federal Communications Commission decision to allow interactive video and data services licensees to provide mobile services, Chantilly, Va.-based Eon Corp. announced its test …

NEW YORK-ProNet Inc., one of the top 10 paging companies in the country, planned to sell concurrent stock and bond issues as early as last Friday. The common stock offering …

Launching new technology into a market involves more than just technological know-how. The expectations of all parties must be managed in order to control the risks, analysts say. System operators …