ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Corp. announced a major expansion of Bell Atlantic All@once Solutions, a business approach that helps organizations deal with the increasing complexities of meeting their information technology …
Another handset manufacturer saw its company stock drop then slowly rise again following the release of a quarterly report with stagnant earnings. It’s the continuation of a process that began …
SOMERS, N.Y.-MobileComm and Motorola Inc. have teamed up with Mountain Dew to launch a program aimed at placing pagers in the hands of teens and young adults. The promotion, called …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. and A+ Network Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby A+ Network will merge into Metrocall in a two-step transaction. Metrocall said it will commence …
WASHINGTON-Negotiations have broken down between hearing impaired advocates and the wireless telecommunications industry on permanently resolving interference to hearing aids by digital pocket phones, raising the possibility of government intervention. …
NEW YORK-Driven by telecommunications deregulation and consumer demand, the emerging industry model is the “super carrier” that delivers a broad menu of services it doesn’t necessarily originate or create, said …
The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition. According to the …
WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack division of Ft. Worth, Texas-based Tandy …
NEW YORK-Excel Communications Inc., which plans to begin offering nationwide paging services this summer, sold an initial public offering May 10 with the share price rising dramatically by the end …
How ’bout the attendees at President Clinton’s White House Corporate Citizenship Conference last Thursday here: Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T Corp.; Charles Lee, chairman of GTE Corp.; Richard Notebaert, chairman …
CHICAGO-Mrs. G.D. Crain Jr., 85, who has been chairman of the board of Crain Communications since 1974, has retired after 40 years with the company and will hold the title …
With the skill of Solomon, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) promised to split the powerful Telecommunications & Finance subcommittee into separate factions if the Republicans keep their majority hold on …
“This is not a race,” said AirTouch Communications Inc. about its controlled rollout of digital cellular service in northern Los Angeles. “It’s about getting the right customers transitioned,” explains AirTouch …
Although sizable telecom rivals in cellular, personal communications services and paging markets nationwide, AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. hold hands in the San Francisco Bay Area, where …
Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group announced that PacLink has become the first to launch Motorola’s FLEX paging protocol and distribute FLEX protocol-based pagers in Thailand. PacLink is investing more than …
Give me a mountain with nothing to do. Give a pager to a kid with nothing to do and what will he do with it? Last week MobileComm and PepsiCo …
WASHINGTON-In a May 10 letter to Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the National Telephone Cooperative Association requested his help to ensure that …
NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a paging wholesaler that went public in March, experienced net losses of $1.5 million during the first quarter of 1996, the price for investment in rapid …
WASHINGTON-“Auctions have revolutionized the way governments will distribute valuable resources and assets,” said Jerry Vaughan, deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. “This will transfer to the …
PLANO, Texas-Paging Network Inc. has signed a long-term licensing contract with Cnet Inc. to provide network management and operational support capabilities, Cnet announced. PageNet will utilize Cnet’s basic operations system …
