DENVER, United States—WebLink Wireless found its white knight.The paging and messaging carrier said last week it scored a deal with Sun Capital Acquisition, which buys cash-strapped companies and then funds them back to health. WebLink said the move will help it emerge from bankruptcy...
WebLink Wireless Inc. found its white knight.The paging and messaging carrier said late Thursday it scored a deal with Sun Capital Acquisition Corp., which buys out cash-strapped companies and then funds them back to health. WebLink said the move will help it emerge from...
HONG KONG—Hong Kong's telecom regulator has asked for comments on its proposal to reduce mobile carrier license fees beginning in May.The country's Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau has proposed reducing the fee from HK$30 (US$3.85) to HK$25 (US$3.20) per mobile station per year, in...
BOSTON, United States—Bankrupt paging company Arch Wireless has filed a reorganization plan highlighting the efforts it will take to pull itself out of its US$2 billion debt.Arch said it will issue new common stock and its operating subsidiary Arch Wireless Holdings will issue US$300...
BOSTON—Bankrupt paging company Arch Wireless has filed a reorganization plan highlighting the efforts it will take to pull itself out of a $2 billion debt.Arch said it will issue new common stock and its operating subsidiary Arch Wireless Holdings will issue $300 million in...
WASHINGTON—The Personal Communications Industry Association laid off five people on Wednesday, reducing its staff to 47 people after a similar reduction of nine people last October.While PCIA is "extremely sound fiscally. It is important that we remain viable while the economy is so stressful....
As the year winds down (and aren't we all ready to put this year behind us and start fresh in January?) RCR Wireless News recaps the top 20 stories of the year (featured on Page 6). The big stories of the year revolved around...
1. Jan. 29Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCCAfter 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum...
BEIJING—The Chinese government issued new regulations on the administration of foreign-funded telecommunications enterprises in line with commitments China undertook upon its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).The 25-article regulation will take effect on 1 January, 2002.Foreign operators that want to set up joint...
BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, United States—Ending months of speculation, Motorola announced it is exiting the ReFLEX paging business by the middle of next year, an industry the company played a major role in developing.Motorola said its Wireless Messaging Division, which is part of its Personal...
BLYTHEVILLE, Ark.—United Communications Corp. and Canada's BritePage Technologies Inc. have entered an agreement in which UCC will represent BritePage's People Tracker Plus production in the U.S.People Tracker is an internal paging system, used in the health care industry, school systems and for security monitoring.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—Arch Wireless Inc. said it will file for file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Jan. 15 in order to restructure its long-term debt. The company owes about $2 billion.The move comes as little surprise as Arch has made numerous hints at bankruptcy in...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—In a move to redirect Motorola Inc.'s two-way pager devices toward the business market and against Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry device, Notify Technology Corp. said it will offer its NotifyLink Enterprise Exchange Edition through Motorola's Talkabout T900 and Timeport P935.Motorola's two-way...
HALLETTSVILLE, Texas—The Texas Association of Paging Services (TAPS) announced it has upgraded its network by installing backup Internet computers on one of its satellite channels and completing negotiations for another back-up satellite channel.TAPS now has coverage in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and...
Osama bin Laden and his goons appear to be in retreat. For that alone we should give thanks, though no one will be satisfied until justice is brought to the mass murderers. How interesting-and telling-that this con artist who spews venomous, anti-American slurs at...
Pinnacle Holdings Inc. painted a grim picture during its third-quarter earnings call last week, as executives tried to offer some hope that the company is going to survive even though two of its customers have disappeared and another is about to call it quits."Pinnacle...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $46.5 million, just slightly more than the $45.3 million the company reported in revenues for the same period the previous year.Pinnacle felt the impact of paging providers PNI and TSR...
BOISE, Idaho—Extended Systems unveiled its XTNDConnect Mobile Objects mobile application software development kit, designed to provide developers with a comprehensive set of tools to build customer mobile applications and extend existing applications to mobile devices.The company said the product makes it possible to extend...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The Chilean government has authorized Nextel to make its network digital. This will allow Nextel to offer cellular telephony, two-way radio, paging and data services using Motorola's iDEN technology.The new network will begin to operate in mid-2002, with a company investment of...
NEW YORK-Once upon a time in the United Kingdom, cellular service was so difficult to obtain that carrier marketing was unnecessary because each customer could resell his service connection to another consumer for $10,000 in the gray market, said Keith Mallinson, executive vice...
Once upon a time, a technology called pACT had a life, savored some love and then disappeared into oblivion. Another one called B-CDMA rocked the eaves of wireless, had an echo and became silent.Like a wordsmith, the wireless industry had lots of acronyms-B-CDMA,...
Editor's note: In 2000, RCR Wireless News founded the Wireless Hall of Fame to honor those individuals who have made significant contributions to the wireless industry. Following is a look at each of the inductees:
BEIJING—Hong Kong listed China Unicom's first-half earnings surged to CNY2.19 billion (US$265 million), but fell short of analysts' predictions of CNY2.25 billion (US$272 million). Mother company China Unicom reported a CNY13.62 billion (US$1.65 billion) revenue, a 30-percent increase compared with last year.In the first-half...
ATLANTA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it joined the Unified Communications Consortium. The group's goal is to further the growth of the global unified communications market for public services and enterprise systems through sponsoring market research and education.Earlier this year Glenayre announced it was quitting the...
