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 auction proctors will step up the pace any time soon.According to Jerry Vaughan, deputy...
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 the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...
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 reporting wireless communications business and financial news from New York. Prior to joining RCR, Mooney...
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 away. The pager displays the caller's phone number and indicates when there is a...
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 1996 and plans to market the service to its customers as well as through...
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 remains unclear whether the historic legislation can be passed this year.The measure is expected...
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 into the auction of C-block personal communications services licenses by backing major bidders.NextWave Personal...
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.Ericsson said it is seeking to support multiple standards in a number of areas, including...
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 transactions pending, CEA said. The company has a current subscriber base of 810,200, which it...
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 Air Extension system will support wireless public-network-based business services in the new personal communications services...
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.Founded in 1988 to develop and market products merging mobile computing with wireless technologies, Ex...
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 messaging switches, 650 transmitters and 650 controllers. The purchase is valued at $20 million, Glenayre...
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 purchased from Glenayre by Westlink Paging Inc., Glenayre announced.Westlink is the network operator for...
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 quarter to $21.1 million, compared with $8.4 million for the same period in 1994. Earnings...
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 Wireless Messaging application programming interface will create new access to emerging services, such as two-way...
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 this summer selected Ameritech as a final bidder for the consolidation of Belgacom. The...
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 it intends to purchase Hi-Tech Paging Corp., West Florida Communications and Page East Inc. The...
A private Dutch company has combined traditional paging with high-tech messaging to produce "Maxing," an advanced wireless service that Eindhoven-based CallMax bv hopes to offer commercially early next year.Using the service, subscribers will be able to store or forward faxes, access e-mail and the...
CellStar Corp. said it formed a distribution relationship with Cellular One Group. The company said the agreement is a nationwide strategic cellular accessory program encompassing original equipment manufacturer products from Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Oki telecom, as well as...
WASHINGTON-Congress, in the face of an impending veto and resumed fighting with the White House over government spending that could lead to another government shutdown next week, approved a Republican balanced budget bill that would raise $14 billion over the next seven years by...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-The recognition of a $95.8 million after-tax gain on the sale of Dial Page Inc.'s paging operation accounted for a $38.7 million, or $1.83 per share, net income for the three months ended Sept. 30. The company recorded a net loss of $39.4...
Alphanumeric paging is making a turnaround in the U.S. marketplace. It's easier to use, more spectrum-efficient and may open a gateway for service providers to sign on two-way messaging customers.Alphanumeric paging is on the rise. According to Roberta Wiggins, director of wireless/mobile communications for...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has signed a distribution agreement with Crutchfield Corp., a national retail catalog sales firm in Charlottesville, Va.The Crutchfield catalog specializes in car, home, electronics and audio/video equipment, reaching millions of potential customers, Metrocall said. With the agreement, Crutchfield will feature Metrocall's...
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced its total number of paging units in service has increased to one million one-way, two-way and voice messaging units worldwide."At the beginning of 1994, we made a strategic commitment to dramatically expand our installed customer base," said John...
