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The recent stock market volatility has created uncertainty among investors, leading to a rather steep slide in wireless stock value, say financial analysts following the wireless industry. Paging stocks have …

Citing in part its superior response to the Galaxy IV satellite outage, the U.S. Department of Defense said it will replace Paging Network Inc. with SkyTel Communications Inc. as its …

Paging carriers are showing signs that they have taken to heart analysts’ warnings that information services must be customizable and have real value in order to convince customers to pay …

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 …

DataLink Systems Corp.-a company providing real-time turnkey information services-introduced two new information services this week, expanding its portfolio of personalized Web-based content. Sports2Go, offered in conjunction with ESPN, delivers sports …

Iridium announced last week it does not plan to meet its commercial launch goal of Sept. 23 because the mobile satellite service provider needs to tinker a bit more with …

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it has begun a new advertising campaign touting its guaranteed messaging service, SkyWord Plus, and at the same time is introducing the new AccessLink II …

The massive popularity of 3Com Corp.’s PalmPilot personal digital assistant has spurred several mobile communications companies to develop wireless solutions for the product. The most recent application is from Mitsubishi …

BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. marks its re-entry into the paging market this week with the commercial debut of its two-way Interactive Paging Service. The service uses the new Inter@ctive 950 …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Division introduced two new services last week-a guaranteed delivery service and a nationwide paging alternative. The first, called AlphaTrack, is a guaranteed-messaging service reselling …

The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.’s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging, in which all major paging players …

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor’s Corp. announced it upgraded its outlook on SkyTel Communications Inc. from negative to stable, citing the company’s improved cash flow and advanced messaging unit growth reported …

Several paging carriers released their second-quarter earnings reports last week, each revealing a continued effort toward achieving profitability and reducing debt. Metrocall Inc. capped off a busy second quarter with …

PageMart Wireless Inc. announced an aggressive rollout schedule for its facilities-based ReFLEX 25 guaranteed messaging service, with commercial service planned for areas of 15 additional states in August as well …

WASHINGTON-The House approved high-tech securities reform litigation that would create uniform national standards for class action shareholder lawsuits and keep such cases in federal court. “This bill closes a loophole …

The paging industry experienced some greater-than-usual excitement in the second quarter that securities analysts at Toronto Dominion Securities Inc. believe will set the tone for the next stage of the …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced a two-year strategic marketing agreement with Washington Gas, under which the utility will offer Metrocall pagers and services to its customers in the Washington, D.C., area …

JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it will deliver news from MSNBC to its subscribers at no additional cost. Subscribers will receive MSNBC headlines twice a day at 11: 30 a.m. …

Glenayre Technologies Inc.’s Wireless Access Group introduced its next-generation interactive two-way messaging device, called the AccessLink II. Based on Motorola Inc.’s ReFLEX two-way paging protocol, the AccessLink II is an …

Paging Network Inc. announced a strategic agreement with Computer Associates Inc. to jointly develop and market a monitoring product that integrates PageNet’s wireless information delivery abilities with CA’s Unicenter TNG …

PageMart Wireless Inc. launched a narrowband personal communications services network in Austin and San Antonio, offering a guaranteed-receipt alphanumeric message service called Scout. This makes PageMart the first paging carrier …

The New York Society for the Deaf signed a contract with BellSouth Wireless Data to deploy BellSouth’s Interactive Paging Service to allow NYSD’s employees, half of whom are deaf, to …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected an appeal by SkyTel Communications Corp.-formerly Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.-that argued the paging carrier deserved its narrowband personal communications license for free as a pioneer’s …

Moves made by the top 10 paging carriers in the last six months dramatically illustrate how paging carriers are changing to remain in the game. The sun has set on …

Now that the crisis is over and paging service has been restored, the paging industry is debating exactly what the pre-Memorial Day pager outage means for its future. Carriers that …