Paging Network Inc. completed the purchase of the paging assets of California-based International Paging Corp. effective Sept. 1. PageNet said it will acquire 50,000 IPC paging customers in California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Utah for a cash purchase price of $15 million. "We...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said that Harry L. Brock Jr. has withdrawn his request to be reinstated as company president, as well as his complaint against certain directors of the company.Brock filed a lawsuit against Metrocall directors earlier this month after a majority of the...
M.W.M. announced the Wave Shadow 1000, a product that automatically mutes or shuts down any vehicle radio when a portable or fixed cellular phone rings, or when outgoing calls are placed. The units require no physical connection to the cellular phone, according to the...
PLANO, Texas-Paging Network Inc. has given CNET Inc. an increased engineering design consulting role in the development of PageNet's two-way, narrowband network.CNET, also based in Plano, provides RF design and operational support system software for the wireless industry.PageNet, the nation's largest wireless messaging company,...
It appears the next wave of paging is as diverse as its players. While SkyTel Corp. is only a short time away from launching its network, other large players systematically continue researching messaging technologies. Motorola Inc. has penetrated the new two-way market with its...
ATLANTA-TGA Systems Inc. has installed a TGA Prism II paging system in Russia for start-up Moscow operator, Conversion-7. TGA also has expanded its Prism II terminal in Changzhou, China.Conversion-7 will use the multilingual feature of Prism II for stored voice and operator functions for...
Teletouch Communications Inc. recently doubled its customer base and fattened its South Central U.S. footprint with the acquisition of the paging assets of Dial-A-Page Inc. for $49.8 million.The privately held, Russellville, Ark.-based Dial-A-Page operates in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Missouri, with about 95,000 pagers...
Editor's Note: The following information is a protion of a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released Aug. 10. From time to time, RCR prints investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., our Top Pick for...
The Intercarrier Service Bureau of GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. and Radio Shack have teamed up to offer consumers out-of-market cellular network activation, GTE announced. Retail stores previously have only activated cellular phones for customers living within the store's market area. Radio Shack customers buying...
After a majority vote Aug. 2 by Metrocall Inc.'s board of directors not to reappoint Harry L. Brock Jr. as president of the company, Brock filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court seeking his reinstatement.According to the Alexandria, Va.-based company, seven of nine members...
SEOUL, South Korea-Under a contract valued at $540 million, AT&T Corp. said it plans to supply Korea Mobile Telecom with wireless infrastructure equipment for KMT's nationwide cellular network.Terms of the multiyear agreement call for AT&T Network Systems to install its Autoplex wireless communications infrastructure...
WASHINGTON-How did a well-intentioned government program to create business opportunities for women, minorities, small businesses and rural telephone companies in the most explosive sector of the telecommunications industry-wireless-become such a mess?A good question, in view of the second postponement of the entrepreneur block auction...
Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products Sector introduced the MCS 2000 line of mobile radios. The radios are built on a flexible platform that the company said is software configurable and can be upgraded through Motorola's FLASHport capability. When communications requirements change, with FLASHport a...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. expects to gain 8,000 paging subscribers through a $7.5 million cash purchase of Celpage Inc., as specified in definitive agreements between the companies.PageNet completed acquisitions of ComTech Inc., SNET Paging Inc., PageAmerica Group Inc. and PageFlorida earlier this year and expects...
PriCellular Corp. has appointed Mary Tavernini as director of sales and marketing for Cellular One of the upper peninsula of Michigan. She formerly worked for BellSouth Cellular Corp. in Milwaukee as manager of major accounts. Tavernini will help PriCellular grow its upper Midwest cluster,...
Noting the Federal Communications Commission recently ended state regulation of cellular service rates in California, AirTouch Cellular Communications Inc. announced lower prices and new service plans in its Los Angeles market. The carrier reduced the price of its After Hours Plan to around $30...
Vigorous consolidation in the U.S. paging industry continues as MobileMedia Corp. closes its $188.5 million purchase of the paging and messaging business of South Carolina-based Dial Page Inc.The rest of the Greenville company will be merged into Nextel Communications Inc. Nextel has an agreement...
CHESAPEAKE, Va.-MAP Mobile Communications Inc. said it deployed the FLEX high-speed paging protocol from Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group on its nationwide alphanumeric paging network."The rapid growth of our alphanumeric subscriber base resulted in a need for a powerful paging protocol," said Garry Morrison,...
WASHINGTON-The entrepreneur block auction for personal communications services licenses that was to begin next week has been postponed again in what has turned into a legal quagmire and an embarrassing setback for the Federal Communications Commission.A lawsuit filed last month by Omnipoint Corp., which...
WASHINGTON-Resale could become a powerful force in wireless telephony in the coming years, bringing an odd mix of competition and commerce to facilities-based carriers.Resale has experienced modest success in the 12-year-old cellular industry, but the infusion of more spectrum (120 megahertz) and new competition...
DALLAS-The number of players in the paging industry continues to shrink with Paging Network Inc.'s latest series of acquisitions.PageNet recently paid $6 million for the transmission network and operating paging assets of Page Florida, operated by Chicago Communications Service Inc. The Page Florida deal...
JACKSON, Miss.-MobileComm is introducing CityLink Now&Then, designed to meet the needs of infrequent travelers. Customers who are going outside of their local coverage area can activate the service via the telephone. Using a touch-tone phone, paging coverage can be forwarded to another location.The service...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. will provide Star Digitel with a Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone system valued at $24 million under the terms of a three-year supply agreement. Star Digitel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Star Paging (International Holding) Ltd."Star Digitel will...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. turned itself into a national wireless powerhouse last week by signing cellular resale agreements with AT&T Corp., GTE Corp., BellSouth Corp., Frontier Corp. and the AirTouch Communications Inc.-Cellular Communications Inc. partnership known as New Par.The resale pacts build on MCI's $190...
