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 apart."Paging is a commodity," said Tim Kataras, president of Global Access Inc., a smaller...
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 of ProNet Inc., Metrocall Inc. said its next serving will be the Advanced Messaging Division...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will use Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s paging technology to build out several major markets during the next two years.TSR has ordered more than 3,000 C2000 controlled transmitters and multiple GL3000 switches from Glenayre for its upcoming FLEX buildout...
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...
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...
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...
The announced merger of SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. has raised speculation there may be another paging unit on the sale block sometime soon.SBC will be the controlling company after the merger. Given SBC's lack of any real paging interests in the past,...
The most recent consolidation among larger paging carriers was completed last month, when TSR Paging Inc. and American Paging Inc. combined into TSR Wireless Inc.With the financial and regulatory aspects of the transaction behind them, TSR Wireless President Mitchell Sacks and his executive crew...
Now that paging carriers must make Universal Service Fund contributions, even though they are ineligible to withdraw money from it, many are adding new charges to customer bills to recoup those fees-and the charges are not just for end users.Some carriers have extended this...
Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said start-up costs associated with its personal communications services business, Aerial Communications Inc., reduced cash flow and operating income during the first quarter, while United States Cellular, TDS' cellular business, continued to be the company's work horse.TDS reported a...
It was designed to be a way to compete against Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology, but instead the joint venture between Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. and American Paging Inc. has dissolved into a lawsuit and counter lawsuit.In the most recent round of feuding, American Paging...
CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said it completed the process to combine American Paging Inc. with TSR Paging Inc.TDS contributed most of the assets and certain limited liabilities of American Paging, and TSR contributed all its assets and liabilities to a company called TSR...
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...
NEW YORK-Along with its fourth-quarter earnings release Jan. 28, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago, reported a lawsuit challenging its plan to repurchase publicly held stock in three of its subsidiaries.The company-parent and majority owner of Aerial Communications Inc., American Paging Inc., United States...
NEW YORK-Telephone and Data Systems Inc., Chicago, announced Dec. 23 a definitive agreement to merge its Minneapolis-based American Paging Inc. subsidiary with TSR Paging Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., to create a new carrier called TSR Wireless L.L.C.For some time, industry analysts have identified American...
NEW YORK-TSR Paging Inc., Fort Lee, N.J., announced Oct. 29 it has closed on a new $175 million credit facility, which represents a $50 million increase over its existing facility.Syndicated among eight banks, the new credit facility was oversubscribed by 70 percent, TSR said....
