The prospect of taking SkyTel 2-Way messaging service from a workable technology to a marketplace product is at the crux of John Stupka's new role as president and chief executive officer of paging giant Mtel.In taking the helm at Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Stupka...
Forget cellular. Personal Technology Services Inc.'s PCS business will compete with the phone company, said Colin Buckingham, PTS' president and chief executive officer.The company is seeking spectrum in the upcoming F-block auction for personal communications services with plans to offer full-mobility service, in buildings...
Comcast Cellular One has named David S. Levine director of marketing communications. Levine will be responsible for all marketing functions for the Cranbury, N.J.-based cellular provider, including advertising, promotion, public relations, research and new product development. He was previously director of marketing for Micro...
SEATTLE-McCaw International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., announced it has purchased a 30 percent interest in Infocom Communications Network Inc., a wireless company in the Philippines.McCaw International said it will invest about $16 million in cash in Infocom, which was...
I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did I use?"Sprint," I told him. Then I thought to myself, "Is it Sprint? No wait, maybe it's MCI."Hold on a...
Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network using a Nokia PCS phone, Psion's palmtop computer and Palmtop BV's Messenger software. Messenger...
MobileMedia Corp. apparently has outgrown the talents of its leaders.Six months after the company purchased MobileComm from BellSouth Corp., MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Gregory Rorke, President and Chief Operating Officer John Kealey and Senior Vice President of Operations Rodolfo Ploder are leaving the company....
WASHINGTON-Members of an association representing small and minority-owned businesses have banded together with local attorneys and several C-block personal communications services auction winners in a campaign to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to push back the D-, E- and F-block PCS auctions for at...
Alerting all couch potatoes, VideoGuide Inc.'s state-of-the-art television enhancement service delivers real-time news and information, wirelessly, and is a seven-day TV program guide and one-touch VCR recording device all in one.VideoGuide's Bedford, Mass., computer facility receives news, weather and sports information, compresses it and...
Paging Network Inc. of Dallas is introducing a paging service that allows its customers to receive unlimited pages with no monthly fees.What's the catch? Value Page is a caller pays paging service.The motivation behind Value Page is much like that of caller pays in...
WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal International Corp. filed a complaint late last month in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on four different...
Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned when it comes to providing wireless services to the estimated 35,000 participants of the 1996 Republican National Convention in San...
ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc system equipment, announced the companies."This nationwide license provides us a great deal of flexibility for expansion purposes as well as...
DALLAS-A new chain of communications superstores called Communications Expo is scheduled to open its first store in Dallas next month, announced Paging Network Inc., which plans to distribute its line of one-way and two-way paging products, including VoiceNow, through the store.The giant retailer will...
Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement with Paging Network Inc. to offer PageNet's wireless messaging services, including the company's line of alphanumeric and numeric pagers. PageNet will provide Comcast with customized equipment and other turnkey programs that can include pager leasing,...
WASHINGTON-The broadcast auction issue has reappeared on the political radar screen with the same intensity and fanfare that nearly upended the telecommunications reform bill earlier this year.This time around, with that legislation signed into law, the controversy has shifted to the Federal Communications Commission...
IRVING, Texas-NEC America announced its intent to introduce its first personal Air Communications Technology paging device for mass market development in 1997.The pACT protocol is a new and advanced two-way messaging standard with an Internet protocol open architecture for narrowband personal communications services. NEC...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. reported disappointing second-quarter earnings July 9. The industry giant cited competition's effect on cellular handset and semiconductor prices, which offset increases in cellular infrastructure and paging revenues.Second quarter sales totaled $6.83 billion, compared with $6.88 billion during the second quarter of...
NEW YORK-Metromedia International Group Inc. sold 18.4 million shares of common stock June 28 at $15 each in order to finance its eastern European telecommunications interests.Gross proceeds, before underwriting and other expenses are deducted, amounted to $202.4 million. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.,...
NEW YORK-Vodafone Group plc said it is paying $52 million to buy the 67 percent of reseller Talkland International (UK) Ltd. that it doesn't already own from Companie Generale des Eaux of France.Talkland is one of the United Kingdom's top resellers, reporting more than...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is crafting a politically correct auction plan that would convert TV broadcast spectrum into a launching pad for new wireless telecommunications services.The initiative, briefly mentioned by FCC Chairman Reed Hundt at a Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing last week and...
SAN DIEGO-AirTouch Paging is testing a medication reminder service in San Diego, offering the value-added service to customers for $13 a month.Patients are paged on alphanumeric pagers when it's time for medication. The information sent includes the medication, the dosage and special instructions. The...
Airlink Software Corp. wants to wirelessly extend what it calls "this century's hottest marketing media-the Internet."The North York, Ontario-based software integrator is marketing its Priority Page software application to Internet Service Providers and paging carriers who want to offer a value-added, wireless-enabled service to...
NEW YORK-Gaetano Rainone, who purchased 100 of the 4 million common stock shares ProNet Inc. sold at $25 each May 31, has sued the paging company, charging it misled investors.The petition for the class action lawsuit alleges that ProNet and certain officers and directors...
