Metrocall Holdings Inc. and Arch Wireless Inc.-the nation's two remaining independent paging and messaging carriers-announced a major plan to merge operations in an effort to forestall massive revenue declines as well as safeguard against the rapidly growing threat from the mobile-phone industry.If approved, the...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here ordered the Federal Communications Commission to fix inconsistencies in paging interconnection rules, setting the stage for rule revisions that could benefit the wireless industry.Mountain Communications Inc., a Colorado paging carrier, had challenged the FCC's dismissal of an interconnection complaint...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here has ordered the Federal Communications Commission to fix inconsistencies in paging interconnection rules, setting the stage for rule revisions that may not necessarily benefit the wireless industry.Mountain Communications Inc., a Colorado paging carrier, challenged the FCC's dismissal of an...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court panel signaled it was prepared to send back to the Federal Communications Commission an interconnection decision with far-reaching implications for the wireless industry, but the agency could use a legal defeat to revise its policy in such a way that...
DENVER, United States—WebLink Wireless found its white knight.The paging and messaging carrier said last week it scored a deal with Sun Capital Acquisition, which buys cash-strapped companies and then funds them back to health. WebLink said the move will help it emerge from bankruptcy...
WebLink Wireless Inc. found its white knight.The paging and messaging carrier said late Thursday it scored a deal with Sun Capital Acquisition Corp., which buys out cash-strapped companies and then funds them back to health. WebLink said the move will help it emerge from...
Pinnacle Holdings Inc. painted a grim picture during its third-quarter earnings call last week, as executives tried to offer some hope that the company is going to survive even though two of its customers have disappeared and another is about to call it quits."Pinnacle...
SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $46.5 million, just slightly more than the $45.3 million the company reported in revenues for the same period the previous year.Pinnacle felt the impact of paging providers PNI and TSR...
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...
The difficulties of the paging industry caught up with wholesale paging carrier PNI Technologies Inc., forcing the company into filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia.PNI said it had hoped to restructure its...
Brad Scott does not think one-way paging is dead."We do believe there is still opportunity in paging, in one-way paging," he said. "It is a challenging business. It's certainly not a business that is in a growth mode right now, but it is a...
Paging lit up the wireless industry like a white-hot star.It showed that fistfuls of money could be made using wireless technology. It showed that wireless companies could grow by leaps and bounds virtually overnight. Paging showed the industry that millions and millions of people...
As the nation's largest messaging carriers suffer through a potentially disastrous economic decline, smaller carriers-those that only cover a few states-are also feeling the effects of the flagging industry. However, while many are losing their businesses to bankruptcy and consolidation, others seem to be...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is accepting comments on a request from Space Data Research L.L.C. for a declaratory ruling or waiver to allow it to use balloons as base stations to offer two-way paging and other advanced messaging services.Space Data said it plans to...
The plan is ambitious, to say the least.Metrocall Inc. and WebLink Wireless Inc. announced last week a plan to merge by concurrently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a business move that apparently has never been done before. The struggling companies face a number of...
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...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Paging carrier Metrocall Inc. may have to move from Nasdaq's National Market System to its SmallCap Market System because the company's stock has been trading below the minimum bid price of $5.The company appealed Nasdaq's decision to remove it from the National Market...
I3 Mobile Inc. executives confirmed late last week the company laid off about 20 percent of its work force as part of a streamlining effort, a move prompted by flagging profits."In order to conserve our resources we've decided to eliminate some positions," said Michael...
Dear Editor: Your Dec. 11 piece, "TSR closes operations," was interesting in light of what appears to be a total lack of information from actual TSR management. As a former 24-year employee at TSR, I would like to make some comments about the article.For Metrocall...
Almost a month after the apparent demise of TSR Wireless L.L.C., which was the nation's fourth-largest paging carrier before it suddenly closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy, there is little concrete information about why and how the company moved from what appeared to...
A week after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in New Jersey, TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation's fourth largest paging carrier, announced Friday it will continue to keep its network up and running.According to Friday's press release-the company's first public statement since it shut its...
TSR Wireless L.L.C., the nation's largest privately held paging carrier, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late Friday afternoon in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark.Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most severe type of bankruptcy, which calls for the...
