NEW YORK-The investment community is taking a second, less optimistic look at paging, at least in the near term, given ProNet Inc.'s recently announced troubles-the latest unwelcome news in this wireless sector.Some paging companies, among them Arch Communications Group Inc. and Paging Network Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-The National Paging and Personal Communications Association is leading an effort to challenge new rules that tighten financial requirements for small business bidders in the D, E and F block personal communications services auction scheduled for Aug. 26.The group is weighing several options, including...
Eurotel Praha s.r.o., Bell Atlantic Corp.'s cellular provider in the Czech Republic, has launched commercial Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in that country. The service covers 43 percent of the licensed territory and 63 percent of the population, Bell Atlantic said. At...
Ralph Haller, former Wireless Telecommunications Bureau deputy chief and chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Private Radio Bureau, has been a private citizen for almost a month now, following his retirement June 10 after 25 years of public service. Since his retirement, he has...
NEW YORK-AVIC Group International Inc. announced it signed a definitive joint venture agreement with Beijing Catch to create a nationwide paging network of at least 100 stations in China.The agreement calls for AVIC to provide financing to construct and expand the paging network to...
Preferred Networks Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all the assets of Big Apple Paging Corp. for $2.6 million.About $1.9 million of the purchase price will be paid in PNI common stock with the remainder to be paid in...
RCR's June 17 article on Page 5 should have indicated that Glenayre Technologies Inc. and other manufacturers affiliated with the Coalition for a Competitive Paging Industry supported efforts to get the paging application freeze lifted but are not involved in the group's efforts to...
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 previous positions include regional technical adviser for Ameritech Mobile Communications Inc., founder and president...
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 local paging service in selected major cities and eventually expanding to regional and nationwide service."The...
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 Consultants International Inc. in its annual study called The State of the U.S. Paging...
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 dodged questions that Commerce Committee members wanted him to answer their way. Sen. Slade...
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 said it posted revenue growth of 1,138 percent from 1991 to 1995.Illinois Superconductor Corp....
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 the race to commercial operation.That was the self-evaluation provided by Mtel Chairman John Palmer...
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 mobile users carrying pagers.Lotus Notes Pager Gateway 2.0 improves the transmission of information from...
TULSA, Okla.-Axcess Global Systems of Metairie, La., has selected SpaceCom Systems and its FM Cubed satellite technology to provide the backbone for the paging carrier's new network of alphanumeric paging and information services, SpaceCom said.The network will use Radio Broadcast Data Service FM-subcarrier signals,...
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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 into those regions. Customer services in all other areas of South America are handled...
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 a contact management software package developed by Symantec Corp. PageSoft for ACT! allows users...
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 owned subsidiary of Black & Decker Corp.Paging Network Inc. has appointed William J. Dixon...
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 priced at $13 each.Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., New York, was lead underwriter of...
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 advanced C-Net controller equipment, which will be incorporated into Mexico's first nationwide, satellite-based paging network...
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 spectrum auction policy on Capitol Hill and that the Federal Communications Commission has become...
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 was expected to announce today that it has smoothed over the rough spots of its...
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 FLEX protocol, Q-Tel said it can expand and enhance its paging service, while continuing...
