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 Rule Making, which included a freeze on accepting new applications for 900 MHz paging...
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 the analog cellular network and transmit fax and data via circuit-switched cellular or emerging Cellular...
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 Jackson, Miss., is the sixth largest paging company in the United States. Its core operation...
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 and will consist of cash and up to 51 percent stock at Parkway's choice.Metrocall...
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 Oe-Call, was unfair. Siemens AG Oesterreich of Vienna holds 19.8 percent in Oe-Call. However,...
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 also was lower.According to the preliminary offering statement, the company expected to sell 3.3...
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 system of 24 satellites launched by the U.S. Department of Defense beginning in the late...
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 auction embrace.The latest application freeze, imposed Feb. 9 on all paging carriers except those...
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 the cellular market in the upper northwest corner of Ohio. U.S. Cellular assumes ownership...
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 collective feel and spark the interest of resellers.Last summer, Arch bought USA Mobile Communications...
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 Systems Ltd., AirTouch announced.The companies will evaluate Nexus infrastructure equipment and TAG Pager two-way...
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 same 900 MHz frequency that PageMart uses in the United States.The two carriers will...
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 freeze be lifted.The commission announced Feb. 9 it will not accept new paging applications...
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 than $1.9 billion.The additional funds will be applied by Iridium Inc. to the ongoing...
WEST POINT, Ga.-InterQuest Inc. announced it is offering a new service that allows wireless carriers to offer unregistered roamers in their market to complete a cellular call.Instead of connecting unregistered roamers to a recording that ultimately prevents the user from completing a cellular call,...
NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a wholesaler of one-way paging airtime, last Friday expected to launch its initial public offering of 3.3 million shares of common stock at $14 to $16 each.The new issue was to be priced late Thursday and could begin trading immediately...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association urged the Federal Communications Commission last week to lift the freeze on paging applications, saying small carriers will suffer unproportionately as federal regulators attempt to streamline rules for large operators.PCIA's President Jay Kitchen said the freeze that went into...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced three contracts for paging infrastructure equipment in China from Hunan Post and Telecommunication Administration, the Shaanxi PTA and the Hainan PTA.Motorola said each province has chosen its Nucleus radio frequency transmission base stations, C-Net control...
NEW YORK-Arch Communications Group Inc. plans a $200 million bond issue, which received a B3 rating Feb. 22 from Moody's Investors Service, according to the agency.The bond issue will partially finance Arch's acquisition of Westlink Paging Inc., said Bob Nabholz, a director at Prudential...
NEW YORK-American Portable Telecom Inc., the fifth largest licensee of personal communications services in the United States, registered Feb. 20 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell publicly its first 11 million shares of common stock. Depending on SEC review, a process that...
Proponents of calling party pays believe the service will both generate more airtime and increase the number of incoming calls, but they don't agree on how such a system should be introduced in the U.S. market."We need some movement along these lines and there...
Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group signed a licensing agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to manufacture and sell Motorola FLEX chip sets. Motorola said it plans to license key semiconductor houses worldwide to manufacture and distribute FLEX chip sets. ITRI is the first...
Antennaco Inc. unveiled a new line of antennas to complement its array of commercial antennas for the wireless communications industry. The company said its new line of Heavy Duty Yagi antennas features a thick wall square tube boom with a full 1 inch cross-section...
NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. of Atlanta plans its debut in the public capital markets early next month to finance its expansion as a provider of systems integrating various modes of communications into one device.The company is one player in a larger trend toward communications...
