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WASHINGTON-Participants in the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auctions are taking the next few days to gear up for Jan. 5, when the bidding for C-block broadband personal communications services and …

A landmark merger deal announced last month, in which Arch Communications Group Inc. agreed to pay $340 million for Westlink Holdings Inc., will establish the nation’s third largest paging company …

SAN FRANCISCO – AirTouch Communications Inc. said it acquired the assets of Hartford, Conn.-based Message Center Beepers, a privately help paging company serving customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New …

Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc., sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Labour, announced it completed a $3 million equity investment as part of a $15 million financing package with co-investors …

Glenayre Technologies Inc. has appointed Bill Edwards vice president of sales and marketing for the Voice Systems Division. Edwards will be responsible for developing a worldwide sales and marketing plan …

Sprint is the newest name in pag ing. Sound familiar? Yes, well that’s the idea. Through a reseller agreement be tween Sprint Telecommunica tions Venture and Paging Net work Inc., …

Over a cup of coffee one Saturday morning, Jai Bhagat decided to try his luck with a new spinoff company called Mtel. That was eight years ago. Today he is …

DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services has launched its commercial rollout of Interim Standard-136 service with a Dallas in-office system, using L.M. Ericsson microcells and Nokia Corp. handsets. The office system installed at …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s first-ever auction of 900 MHz specialized mobile radio spectrum is set to enter its third week of daily, one-round bidding, and there is no indication that …

It’s the morning after. The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview …

RCR Publications Inc. has named Elizabeth Voisen Mooney its New York bureau chief, and hired veteran wireless journalist Debra Wayne in its Washington, D.C., office. Mooney will be responsible for …

Zues Phonstuff has introduced its Always-in-Touch unit, a device that plugs into a home or office phone line and notifies a pager of a call when the phone user is …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said GTE Telephone Operations will include PageNet’s paging products in GTE’s paging portfolio. GTE expects to begin offering numeric and alphanumeric paging services in the first quarter …

WASHINGTON-House and Senate conferees agreed on key wireless provisions in the telecommunications reform bill last week, but with several controversial issues still unresolved and time running out this session it …

Lured by a chance to swim in the next wave of wireless telephony and reeled in by entrepreneurs casting about for financial support, some big fish from Korea are jumping …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with Motorola Inc. giving Ericsson a license to use Motorola’s high-speed paging protocol, FLEX. The license includes pagers and infrastructure equipment. …

DENVER-ProNet Inc. has acquired Apple Communication Inc. and the assets of Best Page Inc., announced Communications Equity Associates. Since 1993, ProNet has acquired 13 paging operations and has eight additional …

AT&T Network Systems unveiled a new wireless business telephone system to help keep workers in voice contact as they roam about their building, office complex or campus. AT&T said its …

New York City-based software developer Ex Machina Inc. wants to expand the utility of paging networks by using paging carriers’ system capacity to broadcast critical corporate information-especially during off-peak hours. …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Glenayre Technologies Inc. said MobileMedia Corp. has agreed to purchase paging infrastructure equipment and installation services to expand MobileMedia’s nationwide paging network. Glenayre will provide 56 wireless …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. and California-based Benbow PCS Ventures Inc. have signed a joint agreement to test two-way messaging services in Southern California through a new high-speed ReFLEX25 transmitter infrastructure …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. reported significant increases in net income and net sales for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. The company’s net income rose 151 percent for the third …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. is introducing a new network standard the company says can increase paging network capacity by nearly 100 times. The Wireless Messaging transfer protocol (WMtp) and the …

Ameritech Corp. announced it has formed a consortium with Singapore Telecom and Tele Danmark to pursue a partnership with Belgacom S.A., the national telecommunications operator in Belgium. The Belgian government …

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-A-Plus Network Inc. said it has signed definitive agreements to acquire three regional paging companies, which will give the Nashville, Tenn.-based company an additional 34,000 paging units. A-Plus said …