paging

PCS Development Corp. is confident in the opportunities for early players in the market for stored voice paging in narrowband PCS. The company just last week announced it signed a …

Try this one on for size: You can’t pay too much for a good wireless license or a good high-tech executive. This statement, mind you, is totally politically incorrect and …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it will acquire the assets of Satellite Paging and Message Network under a definitive purchase agreement reached between the companies. The total purchase price for all …

NEW YORK-Strong investor demand for a debt offering by Arch Communications Group Inc. prompted the company to raise the amount issued to $275 million when it went to market March …

DENVER-American Digital Communications Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all stock of Pagers Plus Cellular Inc. of Walnut Creek, Calif. ADC said Pagers Plus is …

DENVER-U S West Inc. is getting back into the paging business by reselling service from Westlink Paging Inc., the California paging operator that bought U S West’s paging business in …

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. announced a contract with Russian telecommunications company IV Telecom to provide equipment for a digital cellular phone system using Code Division Multiple Access technology. Samsung …

Wireless resellers say they aren’t sure what will happen when personal communications services enter the marketplace next year, but if PCS launches a price war with cellular operators, everyone’s margins …

NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. sold an initial public offering of 3.5 million shares of common stock on March 5 at $18 each. The share price was well above the $10 …

Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible for customer acquisition and dealer development …

SHELTON, Conn.-Engineering and Business Systems Inc., a global intelligent network telecommunications middleware and products provider, announced its merger with NewNet, an advanced wireless solutions provider. The joint company, called NewNet, …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said its first quarter net sales could result in a $10 million to $12 million reduction because of the recent Federal Communications Commission Notice of Proposed …

PHOENIX-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. unveiled the first product in a new line of Personal Access Links at the recent Mobile Insights ’96 conference. The PAL telephone can make calls over …

NEW YORK-Two major credit rating agencies have issued alerts about Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. securities following the company’s Feb. 22 release of disappointing year-end 1995 financial results. Mtel, headquartered in …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all of Parkway Paging Inc.’s stock. Metrocall said the total purchase price will be about $28 million …

L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria’s award of a Global System for Mobile communications license to international consortium …

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc. delayed an initial public offering of common stock scheduled to go to market Feb. 22. The new issue was larger than anticipated, but the share price …

Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks, spawning several potentially lucrative businesses. A …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s new application freeze has created a major rift in the paging industry, the second major wireless sector to feel the big chill from Chairman Reed Hundt’s …

Sprint Cellular Co. and United States Cellular Corp. completed an agreement to exchange controlling interests in cellular licenses in Kansas and Ohio. Under the agreement, Sprint Cellular assumes ownership of …

With two recent large acquisitions tucked under its belt, Arch Communications Group Inc. now intends to knit its coast-to-coast properties together with a common name to give the entity a …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging and American Paging Inc. have signed an agreement for the companies to conduct a joint test of the digital, spread-spectrum, two-way messaging system developed by Nexus Telecommunications …

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International, has teamed with Canadian partners to launch PageMart Canada Ltd., a new nationwide Canadian paging company that will operate on the …

A coalition of local and regional paging companies and an equipment manufacturer plan to file an emergency petition with the Federal Communications Commission this week requesting that the paging application …

WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced it has concluded a private financing within its existing investor group, raising an additional $315 million and boosting its total capital base from $1.6 billion to more …