Advanced Fox WirelessAdvanced Fox Wireless introduced the OEM Style Mini Twin Charger for Nokia Corp. 5100 Series and Nextel Communications Inc. i1000 handsets. The device will charge the battery on the phone while charging a second battery. It is compatible with Nickel Cadmium, Nickel...
Amid speculation that it could be a takeover target by MCI WorldCom Inc., SkyTel Communications Inc. announced a new pricing plan and a major strategic alliance last week, both designed to better position it for the wireless messaging battle ahead.Most significantly, the company announced...
AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom's wireless local loop products worldwide. Marconi will offer AdiCom's WLL products and services under its brand name of MAARS 100 and MAARS 200, and they...
PageMart Wireless Inc. expanded its resale and network integration effort last week, announcing a two-stage strategic relationship with AirTouch Communications Inc.'s paging division, similar to an agreement announced with Metrocall Inc. last November.Under the first phase of the agreement, AirTouch will begin reselling PageMart's...
Conxus Communications Inc. confirmed it had conducted a series of layoffs last week as part of a "strategic refocus" that will affect employees at its headquarters in Greenville, S.C., and satellite offices across the country.The company would not comment on exactly how many workers...
JACKSON-SkyTel Communications Corp. announced it has added information services from Fortune and USATODAY.com to its advanced messaging Customer Newscast line.Under the agreements, Fortune will provide business news, while USATODAY.com will send news feeds regarding general news, money, sports, life and health. SkyTel said it...
Diablo Research Company said it plans to use Motorola Inc.'s ReFLEX chipset to extend two-way paging transmission to utility-related applications by integrating the technology into computers, consumer devices and industrial equipment.BellSouth Cellular Corp. said it selected Compass Telecom Services L.L.C. as its vendor for...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. revised its outlook on Paging Network Inc., the nation's largest paging carrier, to negative from stable, due partly to the company's lower-than-expected fourth quarter 1998 results."The outlook revision ... also reflects ... Standard & Poor's concerns regarding near term...
The fourth quarter of 1998 marked both highs and lows for the various carriers that make up the paging industry, with companies meeting both significant milestones and facing continued challenges.Perhaps deserving of the most attention are SkyTel Communications Inc. and Paging Network Inc., although...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it is developing a program designed to expand distribution and coverage in small-and medium-sized markets by signing "local partner" agreements with regional wireless providers.The first of such agreements was signed with ValuePage Inc., who will have exclusive rights to...
Iridium L.L.C. announced that Kyocera Corp. has completed its handset testing process and has been approved to begin volume distribution of its single-mode satellite phones and dual-mode adapters, as well as terrestrial cellular phones. Kyocera had reported several problems with the testing process, causing...
PROVO, Utah-Big Planet announced its national network of independent sales representatives will begin selling the BeepwearPRO pager, made jointly by Motorola Inc. and Timex, with regular and prepaid airtime made available by SkyTel Communications Inc.The prepaid package includes the pager, units of text and...
When BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced its Interactive Paging service at PCS '98 last year, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing Janet Boudris said she expected financial applications to be a big driver of the two-way messaging paradigm.If recent announcements are any indication, that...
Safco Technologies Inc. announced the completion of TEC Cellular's integration into the company. TEC Cellular's products, services and training now will be sold under the Safco brand. Safco acquired TEC Cellular in April, 1997.Anne Sleater, the AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee wounded Jan. 14...
Just as paging carriers look to two-way paging as a means of differentiation into the next millennium, so do paging manufacturers.In the past, a one-way pager was pretty much the same all over. Even the new lines of 1.5-way, or guaranteed messaging, pagers based...
DENVER-The posturing continued last week among the players interested in buying AirTouch Communications Inc.The Financial Times reported Vodafone Group plc is considering sweetening its $55 billion offer for AirTouch and structuring the deal as an acquisition rather than a merger. The newspaper said the...
NEW YORK-Cue Corp., Irvine, Calif., said it began earlier this month in Las Vegas the commercial rollout of a new voice paging service it plans to offer in 100 North American markets by year's end.The "CUEVoice" messaging service also will include text paging and...
Microsoft Corp. increased its ownership stake in SkyTel Communications Inc.Papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week disclosed that software megalith Microsoft bought 1.54 million shares of SkyTel's Class A common stock last May, bringing Microsoft's total stake in the paging carrier...
In the paging industry today, money talks.Carriers know this and are pursuing every avenue available to bulk up the bottom line. One relatively new road eyed by some carriers in the United States is prepaid paging.At first it sounds suspect, as prepaid cellular services...
After months of aggressive buildout-beginning in late June with the Texas launch-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its two-way, ReFLEX 25-based narrowband personal communications services network is available nationwide.The $310 million, Internet Protocol network upgrade adds two-way messaging capabilities to its existing FLEX network and, with...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced its two-way messaging subscribers can send text messages from their pagers to any telephone in the country, using text-to-speech technology to read the message to the recipient.Called Text-To-Voice, the service works with both landline and mobile phones, the company...
DALLAS-JP Systems Inc. introduced a software package called InfoBeam that allows users of 3Com Corp.'s Palm III organizers to access Web-based information via an infrared link to an AccessLink II pager.Users enter information requests on the personal digital assistant and "beam" the request to...
In an unprecedented show of cooperation, Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. joined forces to promote ReFLEX paging systems in the Asia Pacific, organizing the ReFLEX Technology Symposium '98 held last month in Beijing and Bangkok, Thailand.The symposium drew representatives from more than 300...
Sophia Communications Inc., Miami, plans to use its new 220 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses "to offer its customers unprecedented coverage and building penetration with significantly less network capital than competing wireless technologies," said Jim Dombrouski, vice president of technology operations.Sophia is a development-stage...
