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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. PageMart …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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. …

Marketwave Richard 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Phoenix Wireless Group Phoenix 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 …

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 …

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, …

A group of smaller, paging manufacturers impudently are challenging the pager dominance of the 800-pound gorilla that is Motorola Inc. by creating products with unique features designed to set themselves …

The larger players in the paging industry have bellied up to the consolidation table and, with fork and knife in hand, are poised to dig in. Still digesting its acquisition …