Total paging subscribers in the United States will reach 68.9 million by year-end 2002, according to The Strategis Group report "The State of the U.S. Paging Industry: 1998."Of that number, 60.5 million are expected to be one-way subscribers and 8.4 million advanced messaging and narrowband...
HICKSVILLE, N.Y.-American Alpha Dispatch Services announced it is offering operator-assisted text messaging to personal communications services users who subscribe to Sprint PCS nationwide.The 100-message package, which includes a toll-free number, is priced at $7 per month, according to American Alpha.
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they will jointly develop and market enhancements to Nortel's Companion Microcellular system, a digital wireless private branch exchange, to deliver Wireless Office Service from AWS in building and campus environments.The integration of Nortel's system with...
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 will operate some type of two-way network.SkyTel Communications Inc. no longer will be the...
Research In Motion is expected to introduce a next-generation version of its Inter@ctive two-way messaging device, code-named Leapfrog, sometime this month.The new model is closer to the size of a traditional two-way pager than the original model and retains the full Qwerty keyboard style....
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...
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...
CALABASAS, Calif.-Silverlake Communications Inc. announced it has completed software enhancements for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with MessageFlash Text Messaging Software version 2.0 in AT&T Wireless' digital mobile phone and paging services.MessageFlash 2.0 is a custom application combining the look and feel of the popular...
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...
Most analysts and industry insiders agree the future of the paging industry lies in providing value-added services to the current paging subscriber base.For some that means upgrading from numeric to alphanumeric. For others, that means adding information services to alphanumeric. For San Diego, Calif.-based...
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...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Northern Telecom Inc. introduced an integrated text messaging system that simultaneously sends text to both wireless and wireline text-message compatible phones.Nortel demonstrated the system at the Code Division Multiple Access North American Regional Congress Conference in Orlando, Fla., last week.The system uses the...
With cellular, personal communications services and enhanced specialized mobile radio providers vying for an estimated 14 million new customers in 1997, the wireless industry is expected to end this year with more than 58 million subscribers-a 32 percent annual gain, indicates a recent study...
NEW YORK-Pennsylvania State University, Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom have launched a campus-wide network that is the basis for a joint effort of at least four years to study digital wireless information technology."No one has ever assembled such a diverse team to...
With all the focus on enhanced messaging services allowed by both broadband and narrowband personal communications services lately, the last several months have seen a number of technologies introduced that make it possible to access the Internet, receive e-mail and receive personalized text-based information...
Power Page L.L.C., an emerging paging carrier and reseller in Los Angeles, is not only giving away free pagers to acquire new customers, but is soliciting the help of all other Americans to do so too.In a half-hour informercial aired in 27 markets across...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated with the Denver Summit...
BRISTOL, England-Orange plc is introducing a number of communications services packages that address multiple user groups.The new services, which will be available within the next month, include simultaneous voice and text messaging with a number of users, conference calling and sharing of call plans,...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced two new ways to send messages to AT&T Digital PCS, AT&T PocketNet and AT&T Paging customers.The new services, which include Internet e-mail messaging and the use of AT&T's Web Message Center, make it possible to use the Internet...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AirMedia are working together to develop and market software and messaging services packages.AirMedia is assisting Bell Atlantic Nynex in its efforts to design features, functions and a unique look and feel for the company's messaging software products, said...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile is currently working with AirMedia to develop and market software and messaging service packages.The products, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Text Messaging Software and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Professional Text Messaging Software, were developed by AirMedia to assist the company...
Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products division released its Air Apparent software for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT version 1.1. The product is a general purpose, enterprise-wide wireless messaging software application that integrates paging technology with Windows NT. This allows Windows NT users to send wireless...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. entered into a five-year strategic alliance with First Cellular of Southern Illinois. Under the terms of the agreement, First Cellular will deploy additional paging transmitters on the PageMart network, enhancing PageMart's coverage area in the First Cellular market while providing PageMart...
