Just days before embarking on an unprecedented merger under concurrent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, Metrocall Inc. pulled out of its deal with WebLink Wireless Inc., citing WebLink's recently announced layoffs and sales channel cutbacks."Metrocall continues to believe strongly that a combination of the businesses...
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...
As troubles continue to escalate for embattled paging companies, speculation on marriages between the largest companies are getting rave reviews, even if they don't pan out.Media reports surfaced last week that Metrocall Inc. was in merger talks with Motient Corp., a move that many...
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...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. announced its recent acquisition, RTS Wireless, will supply WebLink Wireless with its Advantage Gateway, as well as installation, training, support and related services.WebLink Wireless said it owns the nation's largest ReFLEX-based data network. The Advantage Gateway will provide complete...
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...
Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it selected Agere Systems as the new name for its microelectronics spinoff. The spinoff is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter. The name Agere has its roots in the Latin verb "ago," which means "to...
DENVER, United States-U.S. paging operator WebLink Wireless is making plans to implement a narrowband PCS (NPCS) network in Central America using a first-ever infrastructure-sharing arrangement that would enable low-volume providers in the seven-nation region to cost effectively begin providing two-way paging services.Central America, sandwiched...
TORONTO-Canada's Bell Mobility began offering two-way wireless data service in Ontario and Quebec, with plans to extend service to the rest of the country by the end of the year.Bell Mobility's e-Page two-way messaging service allows users to receive and respond to paging and...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. hopes to leverage the growing interest in wireless Internet service for the company to remain viable and turn around its troubled past.It is doing so by supporting the growing interest in wirelessly enabling personal digital assistants. Glenayre is taking the lead...
NEW YORK-To help companies extend performance monitoring and feedback beyond their internal technical departments, Managed Objects, McLean, Va., has released beta types of its formula Version 2 software.Since Managed Objects' establishment in 1997, WebLink Wireless Inc. has partnered with it, helping "develop the tools...
Just because the majority of the world's wireless Internet users live in Japan doesn't mean a U.S. company can't join in on the fun.Which is exactly what FunMail Inc. hopes to do. This week, the company launched its Animated Instant Message service on NTT...
Affordable Telecommunications Technology Corp. signed a two-year marketing agreement with WebLink Wireless Inc. Affordable plans to market WebLink's two-way data services and other paging services to customers through its 11 retail stores in South Texas and Louisiana.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-MobileSys Inc. launched its MobileSys Network last week, and made partnerships with WebLink Wireless Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to expand its enterprise data solution to wireless networks.The MobileSys Network is designed to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of wireless messaging in...
NEW YORK-WebLink Wireless Inc., Dallas, will target teen-agers and twenty-somethings with a two-way messaging and e-mail service it plans to debut this summer.Subscribers who sign a year-long service contract for $15 monthly will receive an $80 rebate on the $179 retail price of the...
A running joke dogging the Wireless Application Protocol industry is that its initials, WAP, stand for "Where are the phones?"Applying that to the messaging industry, desperate to be included in the wireless Internet game, the question may be asked, "Where are the pagers?"All discussions...
Whatever you do, don't tell John Beletic he's running a paging network."We spend $580 million building a two-way messaging network and $90 million on the one-way paging network and people are still calling us a paging carrier," said the chairman and chief executive officer...
Two-way messaging took a leap forward last week as Motorola Inc. introduced a new two-way pager and JP Systems Inc. implemented a mobile Internet portal service.Motorola unveiled its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, which features a full Qwerty keyboard, a flip-top screen and a...
JapanVodafone AirTouch plc, together with its partners Japan Telecom and British Telecom, has agreed to restructure its interests in Japan ahead of the start of the third-generation license application process this month. According to Vodafone AirTouch, the main purpose of the restructuring is to...
DALLAS-Looking to increase its presence in the consumer market, WebLink Wireless Inc. formed distribution deals with Kmart Corp. and BlueLight.com, the latter an independent e-commerce company formed by Kmart and Softbank Investment Capital.According to the deal, Kmart will offer WebLink products and services in...
While most in the wireless industry seem fairly positive that wireless Internet services are going to be the next big growth cycle of the future, few have solid ideas on exactly how that's supposed to happen.The pace of today's technology makes it possible for...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced its My2Way two-way paging service, reselling airtime from WebLink Wireless Inc.'s ReFLEX network under an existing agreement.Metrocall said it will sell Motorola Inc.'s PageWriter 2000X and Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s AccessLink II pagers in support of the service. The company did...
