WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission decision last week that is largely favorable to the paging industry has led one local telephone company to threaten to sue."Requiring local service providers to provide free facilities to paging companies, in addition to making ongoing payments to those companies,...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has changed its name to Motient Corp., with the new Nasdaq symbol MTNT."Motient is information in motion, solutions in motion and instant messaging for business-to-business and business-to-consumers," said Walt Purnell Jr., president and chief executive officer of...
BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Inc. has swam into 12 additional Southeast markets, bringing a total of 37 markets into the company's service area. As the first member of the AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network, Triton entered 27 new markets in 1999, and according to the...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. and TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced they have teamed to conduct a holiday campaign in support of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve's Toys for Tots program.Shoppers who bring a new, unwrapped toy for the program to any of TSR's stores in the...
The spirit of collaboration among leaders in the paging industry continues to grow as paging carriers and manufacturers have joined in several marketing and technological efforts designed to increase the awareness and robustness of paging technology.The Personal Communications Industry Association's Y2K Task Force said...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Eight leading paging companies, in an effort managed by the Personal Communications Industry Association, launched the industry sector's first collaborative advertising campaign with TV and radio spots beginning to air in Fresno, Calif., and Jacksonville, Fla.Designed to communicate the advantages of paging technology,...
Last week heralded a slew of fairly positive announcements from the still-struggling paging industry, with PageMart Wireless Inc., Paging Network Inc., SkyTel and TSR Wireless L.L.C. announcing significant partnerships.PageMartPageMart announced a strategic agreement with the MSN.com Mobile Service to provide customized personal information services...
The Edge Consultants, an affiliate of agency.com, released a Wireless Application Protocol browser for handheld computers running either Palm Computing or Windows CE operating systems, called WAPman.Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed the first call on a prototype wideband radio platform designed to help...
When voice paging carrier Conxus Communications Inc. shut off its network in the closing days of August, many wondered what would happen to the nearly 80,000 customers stranded in the process.As time was running out, Motorola Inc. led an effort to keep the network...
The next round in the fight to popularize voice paging has begun, this time in Latin America, as Mexican paging operator RadioFlash became the first carrier to launch a voice paging service over a FLEX network using speech compression technology from OmniVoice Technologies Inc.OmniVoice's...
Originally expected in May, two-way paging devices based on ReFLEX 25 technology will not be available for commercial deployment until the fourth quarter, at the earliest, according to pager manufacturers.Motorola Inc. said its ReFLEX 25-based PageWriter 2000 two-way pager will be available mid-October, while...
In recent months, several alliances and partnerships have been formed among paging carriers that traditionally have been fierce competitors. But both analysts and carriers say this new teamwork in no way diminishes the competitive spirit among the industry players, but rather is a unified...
Despite a short-lived challenge, Arch Communications Group Inc. won the battle to acquire MobileMedia Communications Inc., following approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.MobileMedia's third amended plan of reorganization, which details the process of the merger, was OK'd by the...
More than two years after it first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, MobileMedia Communications Inc. now has two reorganization plans before it to settle its debts-merge with Arch Communications Group Inc. or TSR Wireless L.L.C.MobileMedia has not voiced support for either plan, leaving...
FORT LEE, N.J.-MobileMedia Communications Inc. on Friday filed a statement with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware supporting the acquisition bid submitted by Arch Communications Group Inc. over a competing bid from TSR Wireless L.L.C.This information updates a related story on...
In a surprising move, TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced April 1 it submitted a competing bid to acquire MobileMedia Communications Inc., challenging Arch Communications Group Inc.'s effort to do the same.The action was part of an alternative plan of reorganization filed by certain MobileMedia unsecured...
MarketwaveRichard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, in charge of staff, national accounts and retail sales.Kansas CellularKansas Cellular announced several...
MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc. and TSR Wireless announced the In-Touch II system has been successfully installed in 17 markets for TSR Wireless. The integration benefits TSR Wireless by giving the carrier one database from which to manage its business.
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. entered into an agreement with Omnipoint Communications Inc. to sell personal communications services in all Omnipoint markets in which TSR Wireless operates.TSR said it expects to begin selling Omnipoint PCS as soon as possible."Our objective at TSR Wireless is...
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...
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 as expansions in the inaugural state of Texas.States expected to have service this month...
Phoenix Wireless GroupPhoenix Wireless Group announced several new appointments. Christopher Bear was named director of engineering. He joins the company from AccessLine Technologies Inc., where he was director of product development. Previously, he was lead manager of CDMA open interfaces for Northern Telecom Inc.Kenneth...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. launched a print ad campaign called Summer Necessities.The campaign targets retail customers of the more than 200 TSR Wireless store's nationwide and features newspaper advertisements and direct mail literature.The ads depict humanized versions of Motorola Inc. wireless products enjoying...
With the lifespan of paging devices getting ever shorter, and with new advanced paging devices flooding the marketplace, paging carriers must be extra careful in their purchasing patterns.Kevin Reynolds, president and founder of PCS Maze Inc.-a wireless industry consulting service based in Texas-said the...
