ReadyCom field trials garner 46 paying usersReadyCom Inc. announced it has completed the first phase of its two-way voice messaging market trial. From the 43 participants recruited for the 30-day free trial, ReadyTalk now has 46 paying customers, the result of post-trial conversions, add-ons...
Like parallel rails that run straight into the distance but seem to touch at the horizon, wireless telecommunications and mobile computing have each made great strides into the future. Now leading companies from both sectors are working together to make sure their convergence is...
REDMOND, Wash.-Data Critical Corp. announced it has been awarded two patents for its Data-Through-Paging technology. One patent covers the "packetizing" component of the company's protocol, whereby textual and/or graphical data is compressed and divided into packets for transmission via paging networks, the company said.The...
WASHINGTON-If bidders in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction have learned one thing, it's to watch one's back at any given moment or prized markets will be stolen away. And another milestone has been passed-all C-block BTAs now have been bid higher than...
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WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed to auction toll-free 888 telephone numbers, a potential hot-button issue for Congress that could hurt paging operators in the near term and pocket telephone firms in the future.The proposal, pegged to raise $700 million over three years, is...
U S West Inc.'s board of directors has declared a regular, quarterly dividend of 54 cents per share on the common stock of U S West Communications Group. U S West said the dividend is payable May 1 to shareholders of record of U...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. and U S West Media Group announced U S West Cellular will adopt the AirTouch name before the companies' domestic cellular units merge.U S West Cellular will assume the AirTouch cellular brand in May throughout its 12-state service area. U...
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum's bankruptcy is pending in the...
WASHINGTON-Jackson, Miss.-based Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. will have to wait a while longer to learn if it is liable for a $33 million payment for the pioneer's preference narrowband personal communications services license it won in 1993.After considering oral arguments put forth Dec. 8...
NEW YORK-Recent blips of volatility in the stock and bond markets are no cause for alarm for wireless companies planning to tap the public capital markets this spring, Wall Street executives said.One in three Americans now owns mutual fund shares, and some 30 million...
WASHINGTON-U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor warned that World Trade Organization telecommunications talks will collapse unless more countries agree to open their markets, a development that could complicate efforts to ease foreign ownership restrictions in this country at a time when American firms are scraping...
The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, computer, on-line and organizer features to appease the cravings of today's business professionals.Nokia Mobile...
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 memorandum of understanding with Metairie, La.-based Radiofone Inc., a wireless messaging provider with 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 goes against the grain of conventional wisdom, what with C-block PCS auction prices and executives' salaries...
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 of the assets of both companies will be about $28 million in cash subject to...
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 6.Arch originally contemplated a $200 million issue of senior discount notes due 2008. The...
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 a 220 MHz service provider and network operator with about 21 five-channel systems. The company...
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 1994.U S West said two years ago when it sold U S West Paging...
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 said the $2 million contract represents the first export of a CDMA system by any...
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 will be squeezed."It's hard to say what the carriers will do, but right...
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 to $12 range anticipated last month when the company released its preliminary offering statement.The...
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 through the distribution and retail channel for AirTouch inland California and northern Nevada markets....
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, named former EBS Vice President and General Manager Dilip Singh its president. Singh will focus...
