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 enterprise management system.The service will allow TNG server management system customers to be notified...
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 since SkyTel Communications Inc. to operate a ReFLEX paging network and the first ever to...
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 communicate with each other via the real-time messaging device.The NYSD is a non-profit organization...
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 preference award.The FCC wants the company to pay $33 million for the license."We do...
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 the age of the cheap-beep model and is rising on a new era of value-added...
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 had backup plans felt they handled matters well. But since this was the first incident...
NEW YORK-And now let's have a round of applause for top executives of Arch Communications Group Inc., Paging Network Inc. and SkyTel Corp.These successful emigres from wireless telephony have spearheaded a positive reversal of fortune not only for their paging companies but also for...
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of all paging subscribers in the country found themselves without service due to a faulty...
SkyTel Corp. said its six-year airtime provision agreement with Enron Energy Services Inc. is still on track as planned, despite media reports that the utility company is backing off its marketing plan in deregulated states.The agreement between SkyTel and Enron, a subsidiary of Enron...
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. reported operational results for the quarter that again exceeded analysts' financial expectations but did not meet their subscriber forecasts.Mtel reported a net loss of $12.4 million, or 28 cents per share, which the company called a significant improvement from...
Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market.But mobile data network carriers Ardis and BellSouth Wireless Data Inc.-formerly RAM Mobile Data USA L.P.-believe two-way interactive text...
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced a series of interest rate swaps on its 13.5-percent senior notes due Dec. 15, 2002, and also completed a quarterly covenant test.Both measures were taken to reduce its cash interest payments during the next three years, the company...
To the editor: In response to Kristen Beckman's story "Pilots break no cell phone use" in RCR, March 16, 1998: I wonder if the fears of reduced revenue for cellular providers who have air phones installed in commercial airlines is perhaps another reason the FCC prohibits...
Strategy Analytics, a research firm based in Delafield, Wis., gave perhaps the most conservative forecast of the paging industry to date during a teleconference coinciding with the release of its report, titled "U.S. Paging Market Status and Forecast."Ann Lynch, a researcher at Strategy Analytics,...
Like the ugly duckling that was teased and spurned in its younger years only to mature into a beautiful swan, the two-way paging market is expected to someday spread its wings and lift the paging industry to new heights of subscriber growth and increased...
DALLAS-3COM PalmPilot users can send numeric or alphanumeric pages and personal or group e-mail messages directly, using One-Touch software by JP Systems Inc., the software provider announced.The One-Touch application is a combination of software and cable products that integrate wireless communications with AccessLink two-way...
With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company's Windows 95 operating system changed the computing world-wireless communications companies are hot to secure strategic agreements with the software giant.Motorola Inc....
LAS VEGAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced its new guaranteed-delivery text messaging service, called SurePage Nationwide Delivery.Airtime for the service will be provided by Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.'s SkyTel ReFLEX 50 two-way network, resold and marketed by PageNet. SurePage stores messages when customers are out of...
PageMart Wireless Inc. has announced it will be the next carrier to offer acknowledgement paging using its own network, joining SkyTel Corp.'s 2-Way Network."We're going to have the second NPCS (Narrowband Personal Communications Services) network," said Wayne Stargardt, PageMart's vice president of marketing. "We...
NEW YORK-ZipLink L.L.C., Lowell, Mass., announced Jan. 8 it has been named exclusive Internet and enhanced one-number service provider for the new Beeperwear pager watch offered by MTX Paging Products L.L.C., a joint venture of Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., and Timex Corp., Middlebury, Conn.Once...
Homeowners in California soon will have the capability to run their entire house by remote control-using only a computer, two-way pager, or telephone-thanks to utility deregulation efforts and agreements signed between Enron Energy Services Inc. and Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc.Enron, a wholly owned subsidiary...
WATERTOWN, Conn.-MTX Paging Products L.L.C. announced it has selectedMobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc.'s SkyTelsubsidiary as the exclusive service provider for its new Beepwear pager watch.MTX is a joint venture of Motorola Inc. and Timex. The agreement will allow the Beepwear watch to receive numeric and...
With 1997 drawing to a close, the paging industry is readying itself to go out with a bang.Whether the achievement of the carrier, reseller or distributor, fourth-quarter sales traditionally count for an average of about 40 percent of the paging industry's annual revenue, in...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced users of the AccessLink two-way data messaging pager, made by its recently acquired wholly owned subsidiary Wireless Access Inc., can connect to 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot via the One Touch application software and cable from JP Systems Inc.The connection...
