The U.S. paging and messaging industry is still declining. Nationwide carriers are still losing thousands of customers every month-both one- and two-way subscribers-and there is no indication the tide will turn anytime soon.However, industry players continue to offer hopeful outlooks on the future. Some...
WASHINGTON-The wireless market is competitive so the Federal Communications Commission should not impose exit regulations on mobile-phone carriers, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association told FCC Chairman Michael Powell on Thursday."Requiring providers to secure permission to discontinue their services, however, offers no countervailing...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.—A potentially important deal between Motorola Inc. and Multitone Electronics has fallen through, Motorola confirmed, which leaves the paging and messaging landscape still more uncertain.Last year Motorola announced it would exit the paging and messaging industry altogether, and would stop making its...
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Wireless Internet communications provider JumpStart Wireless Corp. announced its DispatchSuite will be marketed by Skytel Communications Inc. through its Web site.DispatchSuite allows companies to integrate existing forms including work orders, delivery orders, work requests, sales leads, time sheets, billing data and route...
CLAREMONT, Calif.—Wireless software developer WolfeTech Development Corp. announced its PocketGenie application is now available on SkyTel two-way paging devices. PocketGenie offers users access to more than 200 real-time information services including stock quotes, driving directions, restaurant guides, movie schedules, package tracking, news, sports, phone...
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...
Editor's Note: Since 1993, RCR Wireless News has chosen one person who most impacted the wireless industry that year. As part of our celebration of 20 years of covering the wireless industry, here is a look at past inductees:1993
Berliner Communications Inc.Doreen Trant has been promoted to chief operating officer of Berliner Communication Inc. Trant previously served as the company's vice president of sales and marketing. She will now be responsible for service disciplines including RF engineering, site acquisition, construction, project management,...
It's quiet out there in the paging and messaging industry.Perhaps too quiet.WebLink Wireless Inc., Arch Wireless Inc. and Metrocall Inc. are the three largest independent paging and messaging companies in the country, and it seems their fates are intricately entwined. They are all facing...
H.O. SystemsH.O. Systems has chosen Scott Berry as vice president of professional services. His 12 years of industry experience includes executive positions at Alltel, Convergys and Cellular One. At H.O., Berry will be responsible for streamlining and growing business operations for the company. Of...
Ameritech Paging, owned by SBC Communications, was left out of RCR Wireless News' 2001 Top 20 Paging Carrier list in the June 18, 2001 issue. With 1.1 million subscribers, Ameritech would have placed 6th, just after SkyTel Communications Inc. Ameritech's business information follows: Company: Ameritech...
NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. shareholders approved June 7 the creation of separate tracking stocks, which pursued separate pricing paths at the close of their first day of trading on Nasdaq June 8.Under the plan, each share of WorldCom was converted into one share of WorldCom...
As predictable as ants at a picnic, the summer of 2001 finds the mainstream press proclaiming the death of the paging industry. This time around, they are wrapping it inside their coverage of the dot-com deathwatch. However, industry professionals and trade press know the...
"Advanced messaging services."It's the catch phrase for the wireless messaging industry today, with most major companies betting everything that services like wireless e-mail access, Internet information and two-way paging will catch on with both consumers and businesses-and will compensate for the radical decrease in...
While most wireless companies are targeting either the consumer or the business market with their technology, a select few are targeting a new and rather unlikely area for wireless services and devices-the classroom.The vision these companies have consists of students keeping up with new...
As troubles continue to escalate for embattled paging companies, speculation on marriages between the largest companies are getting rave reviews, even if they don't pan out.Media reports surfaced last week that Metrocall Inc. was in merger talks with Motient Corp., a move that many...
Earlier this month, bankruptcy officials worked to auction off what was left of TSR Wireless L.L.C., which was the nation's largest privately held paging carrier before it filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in December. The auctioneers had hoped to raise enough money to pay...
The traditional paging industry is dead, many analysts and paging veterans agree. But there is an escape route for the few companies left fighting, though many industry observers agree more consolation will take place and not everyone will make it to greener pastures.The recent...
Two-way messaging licenses held by the now-bankrupt paging company TSR Wireless L.L.C. will be auctioned off near the end of this month, according to the company's bankruptcy trustee Charles Forman.The auction for the two two-way licenses, informally known as the channel 4 and channel...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-WorldCom Inc., the nation's second-largest provider of long-distance service, on Wednesday laid off about 6,000 U.S. employees, or roughly 7 percent of its worldwide work force, as part of a restructuring announced last year, a company source said.Nearly every segment of the...
AirNetUnited States. With MBO for a GPRS system.Value: UndisclosedAlcatelGambia. With Gamtel for a turnkey GSM network to be installed in the greater Banjul area.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for a high speed mobile data service on its GPRS commercial network.Value: UndisclosedPortugal. With TMN for UMTS technology in the...
"No wires, no waiting" is the mantra of Air2Lan, a young wireless broadband company headed by industry leader and mainstay Jai Bhagat.Bhagat, former chief executive officer of SkyTel Communications before it merged with WorldCom Inc., and several others formed the company last year in...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-JP Systems introduced a new platform at CTIA's Wireless I.T. show last week called SureWave, along with a WAP browser for Palm OS devices, supporting the Palm Query Application over multiple wireless networks.The SureWave platform replaces the firm's InfoBeam technology as its...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
