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FRIDAY - JANUARY 3, 2003 - ISSUE NO. 47 |
Dear Friends and Industry Colleagues, The holidays are frequently a mixed blessing. I hope you enjoyed yours. Now that they are finally over, we can get back to business. Although business is usually very dead between Christmas day and New Year's day, this year was different for me. I was very busy with some interesting new projects. Let's hope this is an indication that 2003 will be a good year for business—for all of us. I remain convinced that it's not over yet for paging! We are just redefining who we are and what we do. Change is often painful, but it is inevitable. Remember the saying: "insanity is thinking that the same behavior will produce different results." I am afraid that some of our paging carriers are still following the same arrogant business attitudes that contributed to their bankruptcy. Let's get creative with Wireless Data and build some new businesses. Read about one of the building blocks below; the Paging Data Receiver. Let me remind everyone that to be in business you must have customers. If you don't have customers, you don't have a business. First you have to get the customers, and then you have to keep them. Both the getting and the keeping involve supplying them with things they want and solving their problems. That's why they give us money. If we can't keep them, they go away and give their money to someone else. |
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I know this may all sound a little too simple to some, and I think they probably don't teach these principles to MBA students. I can't be sure because I don't have an MBA, but when I see businesses in trouble turning down new customers, it makes me wonder. I am sorry, but I guess I am just not smart enough to understand this kind of business practice. We used to joke that some of the large paging carriers were only losing a little bit of money on each subscriber, but they were making it up in the volume. Then they all went bankrupt and it wasn't funny anymore. |
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I have already
ordered my plane ticket and hotel room. I am really looking forward
to meeting some of you there. By the way, the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey
team
is playing
the Montreal Canadiens at home in Tampa on January 22nd. Game
time is 7:00 p.m. at the St.
Pete Times Forum,
401 Channelside Drive, Tampa, FL 33602. You
can still get tickets to the game on the Internet by clicking here. | |||||||||||
From: RCR Wireless News WIRELESS MAN
OF THE YEAR |
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THE
PAGING INFORMATION RESOURCE I took a one-day course sponsored by Motorola at Florida Atlantic University about 11 years ago on how to develop web sites. I am not a programmer, I am a web author. After the initial course, I learned everything else on my own. Over the last couple of weeks, the fonts were all changed to "Verdana" which is a special font created by Microsoft to be readable on a computer display screen. There were over 15,000 instructions that had to be modified to accomplish this one change. Most fonts are designed to look good when printed on paper. Verdana looks good on a computer screen and is easier to read. It is a "sans-serif" font similar to Arial on Microsoft Windows and Helvetica on the Macintosh, but slightly larger. Most of the text size is set at two points, which is one size smaller than what is considered normal on most browsers. I hope you like it. Scarcely a day goes by that someone doesn't send me a message saying they enjoyed visiting BradDye.com and asking to subscribe to the newsletter. The number of subscribers has just about doubled over the last year and the 47 issues of the newsletter. If you know someone who might enjoy this newsletter, please click on your e-mail "forward" button and send it to them or tell them to check out the newsletter archive at: http://braddye.com/newsletters.html. |
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VYTEK WIRELESS AND DAVISCOMMS | ||||
PL-900 FLEX RECEIVER The Daviscomms TMR (Telemetry Messaging Receiver) is a one-way FLEX™ telemetry device and is being manufactured by Daviscomms in Singapore. It is being stocked and distributed in the Americas by Vytek Wireless Products as the PageLink™ PDR (Paging Data Receiver) |
If you want to build a new Wireless Data business segment, this is one of the building blocks that you can use. Vytek now has these units in stock, here in the USA, for immediate shipment. Vytek Wireless has expanded their Paging Telemetry Product line to include the PL-900 FLEX™ Paging Data Receiver. The PL-900 provides a solution for customers looking for a CreataLink™ one-way receiver replacement. PL-900
FLEX Module The PL-900 receivers are synthesized and operate in the 929-932 MHz frequency range, have eight addressable high/low output lines or serial output and are capable of receiving data for up to 16 programmable capcodes for flexible group and sub-group addressing. The PL-900 comes with either an on-board antenna or a connection for an external long-range antenna. To download
the product brochure, please click here. CreataLink is a trademark of SmartSynch Communications Corp. The product and trademark were formerly owned by Motorola Inc. |
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UNTIL NEXT WEEK | |
PAGING | Best regards,
FLEX, ReFLEX,
InFLEXion, and PageWriter are trademarks or registered trademarks of Motorola,
Inc. |
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