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.The Coalition for a Competitive Paging Industry, a collection of nearly 200 local and regional...
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 Suzhou.A $3million expansion contract with China Motion adds paging systems in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.Motorola's $1.7...
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 be big to survive."There's an assumption that small bidders are afraid to go it...
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 in high-tech firms are being cut by the thousands. It's a hot button issue this...
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 inventory, receivables and payables. Cartwright is a value-added distributor of radio communications equipment serving...
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 the Coalition for a Competitive Paging Industry.The FCC, which imposed the freeze Feb. 8...
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 of a two-way messaging/monitoring service catering to vending-machine owners in Monterrey, Mexico.Prior to the...
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 was proposed at four million shares, and the 10-year senior subordinated note issue at $100...
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 must be responsible for the expectations they create in the minds of customers. Equipment manufacturers...
Reflection Technology Inc. has completed a $10 million round of private funding from a series of new and existing investors. "This round of financing will allow us to accelerate our growth in the wireless communication and interactive entertainment markets and continue to develop our...
Telecom Finland has contracted with L.M. Ericsson to build a new DCS-1800 system and expand Telecom Finland's existing Global System for Mobile communications network.Ericsson values the contract at $105 million. The company said the contract is an indication of the "ever fiercer competition to...
ISLANDIA, N.Y.-Affordable Message Center has found the gospel of alphanumeric paging and is spreading the word by taking its show on the road nationwide.From an end-user standpoint, alphanumeric paging provides greater speed than two-way paging, greater message capacity than digital and greater privacy than...
Former Eastern bloc countries that participate in the World Trade Organization, and the offers they have made to open worldwide markets. Source: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.Czech Republic-Open market access for all services and facilities by 2001 with no limits on foreign investment.Hungary-Open market...
Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of Global System for Mobile...
It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...
While Motorola Inc.'s FLEX paging technology begins to dash across the globe, POCSAG remains the de facto standard in the international paging world, said Ann Lynch, an analyst with the Yankee Group.However, compared to mobile telephony, traditional paging is faring poorly in Europe, and...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
Motorola Inc. said it has worked out the glitches and is in full production again on the RSVP, its slim cellular phone battery that contains a pager.The product was introduced last October. It fits on both the Motorola MicroTac flip phone and the Retail...
There is enough room in today's marketplace of specialized products for both traditional paging and the handset messaging offered by new 1800 MHz wireless operators and digital cellular operators, analysts say."Consider the microwave oven," said David Abraham of David Abraham & Co., Westport, Conn.,...
It is said that when you provide a valuable service at a fair price, you'll always have customers. Such is the personality of paging.In the last year more than ever, the industry has recognized that two-way paging and other wireless services, feature-rich as they...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry sent a clear message to the Federal Communications Commission that it expects to be treated as a local exchange carrier when it comes to distributing additional numbers and implementing new area codes.Comments submitted last week regarding how certain local-competition provisions...
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...
NEW YORK-Rogers Cantel Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc., sold an $800 million debt issue May 22 to refinance at lower rates outstanding indebtedness that had an interest rate of 10.75 percent.The new issue was divided into three parts,...
The paging industry is undergoing a major regulatory overhaul.The question is why?As the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry, it is not clear whether sweeping changes are being made to accommodate the federal government and large paging companies that have paid hundreds...
