Text Messaging

HICKSVILLE, N.Y.-American Alpha Dispatch Services announced it is offering operator-assisted text messaging to personal communications services users who subscribe to Sprint PCS nationwide. The 100-message package, which includes a toll-free number, is priced at $7 per month, according to American …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they will jointly develop and market enhancements to Nortel’s Companion Microcellular system, a digital wireless private branch exchange, to deliver Wireless Office Service from AWS in building and campus environments. The …

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 will operate some type of two-way network. SkyTel Communications Inc. …

Research In Motion is expected to introduce a next-generation version of its Inter@ctive two-way messaging device, code-named Leapfrog, sometime this month. The new model is closer to the size of a traditional two-way pager than the original model and retains …

The New York Society for the Deaf signed a contract with BellSouth Wireless Data to deploy BellSouth’s Interactive Paging Service to allow NYSD’s employees, half of whom are deaf, to communicate with each other via the real-time messaging device. The …

Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market. But mobile data network carriers Ardis and BellSouth Wireless Data Inc.-formerly RAM Mobile Data …

CALABASAS, Calif.-Silverlake Communications Inc. announced it has completed software enhancements for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with MessageFlash Text Messaging Software version 2.0 in AT&T Wireless’ digital mobile phone and paging services. MessageFlash 2.0 is a custom application combining the look …

Strategy Analytics, a research firm based in Delafield, Wis., gave perhaps the most conservative forecast of the paging industry to date during a teleconference coinciding with the release of its report, titled “U.S. Paging Market Status and Forecast.” Ann Lynch, …

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 …

Most analysts and industry insiders agree the future of the paging industry lies in providing value-added services to the current paging subscriber base. For some that means upgrading from numeric to alphanumeric. For others, that means adding information services to …

LAS VEGAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced its new guaranteed-delivery text messaging service, called SurePage Nationwide Delivery. Airtime for the service will be provided by Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp.’s SkyTel ReFLEX 50 two-way network, resold and marketed by PageNet. SurePage stores messages …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Northern Telecom Inc. introduced an integrated text messaging system that simultaneously sends text to both wireless and wireline text-message compatible phones. Nortel demonstrated the system at the Code Division Multiple Access North American Regional Congress Conference in Orlando, Fla., …

With cellular, personal communications services and enhanced specialized mobile radio providers vying for an estimated 14 million new customers in 1997, the wireless industry is expected to end this year with more than 58 million subscribers-a 32 percent annual gain, …

NEW YORK-Pennsylvania State University, Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom have launched a campus-wide network that is the basis for a joint effort of at least four years to study digital wireless information technology. “No one has ever assembled …

With all the focus on enhanced messaging services allowed by both broadband and narrowband personal communications services lately, the last several months have seen a number of technologies introduced that make it possible to access the Internet, receive e-mail and …

Power Page L.L.C., an emerging paging carrier and reseller in Los Angeles, is not only giving away free pagers to acquire new customers, but is soliciting the help of all other Americans to do so too. In a half-hour informercial …

DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated …

BRISTOL, England-Orange plc is introducing a number of communications services packages that address multiple user groups. The new services, which will be available within the next month, include simultaneous voice and text messaging with a number of users, conference calling …

KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced two new ways to send messages to AT&T Digital PCS, AT&T PocketNet and AT&T Paging customers. The new services, which include Internet e-mail messaging and the use of AT&T’s Web Message Center, make it …

NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AirMedia are working together to develop and market software and messaging services packages. AirMedia is assisting Bell Atlantic Nynex in its efforts to design features, functions and a unique look and feel for the …

NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile is currently working with AirMedia to develop and market software and messaging service packages. The products, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Text Messaging Software and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Professional Text Messaging Software, were developed by …

Motorola Inc.’s Integrated Software Products division released its Air Apparent software for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows NT version 1.1. The product is a general purpose, enterprise-wide wireless messaging software application that integrates paging technology with Windows NT. This allows Windows NT …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. entered into a five-year strategic alliance with First Cellular of Southern Illinois. Under the terms of the agreement, First Cellular will deploy additional paging transmitters on the PageMart network, enhancing PageMart’s coverage area in the First Cellular …

SEATTLE-AirTouch Cellular said it expanded its Powerband Digital Service offering to customers in 30 locations through 11 Puget Sound retailers. AirTouch customers living in western Washington already had access to the service. Services available with Powerband include voice mail with …

Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile expanded its Code Division Multiple Access digital wireless phone service to include incoming text messages in New York and New Jersey. The new text messaging service is available to customers for $13 per month for personal …