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WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. turned itself into a national wireless powerhouse last week by signing cellular resale agreements with AT&T Corp., GTE Corp., BellSouth Corp., Frontier Corp. and the AirTouch Communications Inc.-Cellular Communications Inc. partnership known as New Par.The resale pacts build on MCI's $190...

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. will provide Star Digitel with a Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone system valued at $24 million under the terms of a three-year supply agreement. Star Digitel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Star Paging (International Holding) Ltd."Star Digitel will...

JACKSON, Miss.-MobileComm is introducing CityLink Now&Then, designed to meet the needs of infrequent travelers. Customers who are going outside of their local coverage area can activate the service via the telephone. Using a touch-tone phone, paging coverage can be forwarded to another location.The service...

DALLAS-The number of players in the paging industry continues to shrink with Paging Network Inc.'s latest series of acquisitions.PageNet recently paid $6 million for the transmission network and operating paging assets of Page Florida, operated by Chicago Communications Service Inc. The Page Florida deal...

WASHINGTON-Resale could become a powerful force in wireless telephony in the coming years, bringing an odd mix of competition and commerce to facilities-based carriers.Resale has experienced modest success in the 12-year-old cellular industry, but the infusion of more spectrum (120 megahertz) and new competition...

FORT LEE, N.J.-Tri-State Radio Co. announced deployment of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX high speed paging protocol on its East Coast and West Coast regional paging networks."The rapid growth of our markets necessitated an advanced protocol solution. We chose the FLEX protocol because it is the...

San Diego-Westlink Paging Inc. announced completing its acquisition of Telecomm Systems Inc., a Eugene, Ore., paging company. The purchase forms the nation's largest privately owned paging company in terms of subscribers, said Westlink.Telecomm Systems is the parent company of Page West and Portland Paging,...

WASHINGTON-New telephone number policies embraced by federal regulators will benefit the wireless telecommunications industry, which accounts for two of every three new telephone numbers established. The wireless community previously has had to rely on an entity controlled by the seven regional Bell telephone companies...

Applying its linear fiber optics technology, Ortel Corp. is providing wireless networks a vital supplement for communicating in environments that are limited by physical barriers, like underground transit.Together with Andrew Corp., Ortel will help provide clear communications for cellular customers in Hong Kong's Mass...

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. said it will offer paging services to Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems under a strategic alliance.Under terms of the contract, Southwestern Bell Mobile first will offer numeric paging service in major Texas markets via PageMart's direct broadcast transmission network.PageMart said it plans to...

The purchase of Nationwide Cellular Service Inc. is a good short-term strategy for MCI Communications Corp., but the nation's second largest long-distance company will need to acquire some infrastructure to become a competitive wireless provider, said a Virginia-based communications analyst.MCI announced plans to become...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced its One Touch advanced messaging service combining the benefits of nationwide paging services with the flexibility of a single telephone number.The company said One Touch subscribers will be given a personal 800 number to route communications to their office, home,...

Creating a nongovernmental United States Numbering Association to administer phone numbers will offer "an independent administrator, with a neutral governing board for which all carriers will be eligible," said the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.CTIA recently proposed USNA to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC...

As one company fine-tunes its debut for narrowband personal communications services, others bide their time by determining market position and devising rollout strategies.SkyTel Corp.-through its PCS bidding entity Destineer Corp.-plans to activate its nationwide two-way advanced messaging service during the second half of the...

By awarding licenses for public cellular and paging services earlier this month, the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore joins the growing tide of countries sweeping the Asia-Pacific region to bring competition to telecommunications and liberalize the economy.Coming out on top was MobileOne Pte Ltd., the...

Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...

Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...

As the onset of narrowband personal communications services nears, the industry is abuzz about what promises to be the next wave of wireless wonder. But for many narrowband providers-to-be, it is only a natural extension of one-way paging.Two camps have emerged among advanced messaging...

WASHINGTON-In a major setback for states, the Federal Communications Commission ruled public utility commissions cannot regulate local rates of commercial wireless carriers.The FCC on May 11 rejected petitions from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Ohio seeking to retain rate regulation of...

Growth in the paging industry exploded this year, led by public companies that have pushed boldly across market borders, stepped confidently into marriages of convenience and reaped tremendous opportunities from serving a new consumer-oriented market.The result is a 38 percent industry growth rate at...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Air Apparent for NetWare, a wireless software application, was introduced by Motorola Inc.'s Personal Communicator Systems and Software division.Air Apparent is an enterprise-wide wireless software application integrating paging technology with Novell NetWare and NetWare Directory Services. By uniting the network server with...

PLANO, Texas-ProNet Inc. announced it has completed the stock purchase of Metropolitan Houston Paging Services Inc. for $21 million cash.The Houston paging operation is owned by GTE Southwest Inc., SLT Communications Inc. and Lufkin-Conroe Telecommunications Corp. GTE is reorganizing its paging business to concentrate...

Federal regulators overseeing the fast-growing paging industry these days have a "good problem" that could easily turn into a bad problem with a few missteps by Washington officials in the coming months.Here's the good problem: Paging, the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry,...

WASHINGTON-U.S. District Judge Harold Greene will decide whether AirTouch Communications Inc., a wireless spin-off of Pacific Telesis Group, is held to restrictions imposed on the seven regional Bell telephone companies by the 1982 consent decree that broke up AT&T.San Francisco-based AirTouch, a top paging...