| FRIDAY - AUGUST 13, 2004 - ISSUE NO. 125 | ||
Dear friends of Wireless Messaging and Paging,
I received a fairly obscene message the other day. The first time— in all these years on the Internet—one directed to me as opposed to routine junk mail that we all receive. At first I thought it was one of my friends just trying to be funny, but now I am not so sure. I wasn't going to publish it, but have decided to do so anyway. Some of the more harsh language has been edited with "--" (dashes) but you can still tell what the original was. You can see it in the READER'S COMMENTS section below. I hope we don't have any very young readers, and I also hope this isn't from Al Qaeda. It has been reported to MSN Hotmail Security. I just received notice that Doug Richardson, one of the pioneers of Paging in Canada, recently passed away. Doug was truly a nice guy and will be missed by his many friends. Here is his obituary from the Toronto Star, sent in by a reader:
Please note the Metrocall Second Quarter 2004 Operating Results report, which follows. There is one bit of news on the pending merger: "Arch and Metrocall anticipate the merger to be completed in the late third or early fourth quarters of 2004." Now on to the Wireless Messaging news and views. |
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A new issue of The Wireless Messaging Newsletter gets posted on the web each week. A notification goes out by e-mail to subscribers on most Fridays around noon Eastern US time. The notification message has a link to the actual newsletter on the Internet. That way it doesn't fill up your incoming e-mail account. There is no charge for subscription and there are no membership restrictions. Readers are a very select group of wireless industry professionals, and include the senior managers of many of the world's major paging and wireless data companies. There is an even mix of operations managers, marketing people, and engineers, so I try to include items of interest to all three groups. It's all about staying up-to-date with business trends and technology. I regularly get reader's comments, so this newsletter has become a community forum for the paging, and wireless data communities. You are welcome to contribute your ideas and opinions. Unless otherwise requested, all correspondence addressed to me is subject to publication in the newsletter and on my website. NOTE: This newsletter is best viewed at screen resolutions of 800x600 (good) or 1024x768 (better). Any current revision of web browser should work fine. Please notify me of any problems with viewing. This site is compliant with XHTML 1.0 transitional coding for easy access from wireless devices. (XML 1.0/ISO 8859-1.) Your help is needed. Help keep the newsletter going. Click on the PayPal button. | |
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Research In Motion to double users in 2004 Expects 2 million BlackBerry owners Earnings consistently exceed forecasts Aug. 12, 2004. 01:00 AM SINGAPORE—Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the popular BlackBerry hand-held organizer, said it expects to double its number of subscribers to 2 million by year end on robust demand from small businesses. Since late last year, Waterloo-based RIM has posted quarterly results that have consistently beat analyst expectations on strong demand for the flagship device, which offers secure wireless access to corporate e-mail, the Web and traditional digital diary functions. "We had 500,000 subscribers in February, 2003, we crossed the 1-million mark in February this year, and we expect to reach 2 million by the end of December or early January," Patrick Spence, RIM's Asia Pacific vice president, told Reuters in an interview. Demand is being driven by employees of small- and medium-size businesses in the United States, Hong Kong and Australia who want to access their e-mail on the move, he said. Increased messaging and e-mail usage in Europe, as well as new applications for the BlackBerry in the healthcare and real estate sectors in North America, will also boost growth, he added. RIM's new subscribers have been rising 27-28 per cent quarter-over-quarter, with Asia's growth rate "significantly" topping this number. RIM has been working with Asian mobile carriers such as Australia's Telstra Corp., which has sold more than 10,000 BlackBerry handhelds, and Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which has over 500 corporate customers. It also offers the service in the Philippines via Smart Communications Inc., the cellular unit of Philippine Long Distance Telephone, and with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Southeast Asia's largest phone company. Spence said Asia would contribute materially to RIM's earnings in 2005-2006 when it expands into China and India. RIM reported a stronger-than-expected net income for the first quarter ended May 29, its fourth straight quarterly profit. Excluding a litigation provision of $15.6 million (U.S.) from a successful patent suit against it in 2002, which RIM has appealed, adjusted net income was $70.6 million, or 36 cents a share. Analysts had expected an adjusted profit of 32 cents a share, according to Reuters Estimates. Source: Toronto Star Aether reports loss, revenue dip Aug. 06, 2004 1:12 PM EST Aether Systems Inc. reported another financial loss with a dip in revenue for the quarter ended June 30, underscoring the company’s struggles. In its second-quarter results, the company said it incurred a net loss of $49.8 million, or $1.14 per share, compared with a loss of $14.7 million, or 35 cents per share in the second quarter of 2003. Its revenues also fell for the quarter to $12.4 million, as against $14.5 million in the year-ago period. “Excluding the impairment charges, operating expenses remained significantly lower than they were last year and roughly flat as compared to last year,” said David Reymann, Aether’s chief financial officer. “The lack of revenue growth and the slight decline in gross margin that we saw in the second quarter in both business segments were understandable given the uncertainty that has surrounded these businesses as we have moved through the completion of our strategic activities.” Last month, Aether said it would sell its transportation division to an affiliate of Platinum Equity for $24 million in cash and that it was in discussions with potential buyers to sell its remaining wireless division, the Mobile Government Division. The company said it plans to focus on mortgaged-backed securities with a $75 million financial commitment. At one point, Aether was a wireless Internet darling, with stock trading at upward of $300. Source: RCR Wireless News Spectrum policy "On the same wavelength" Aug 12th 2004 | SAN FRANCISCO Recommended article about the regulation of spectrum allocations in the USA. Very well written and very interesting. Source: Economist.com Metrocall Reports Second Quarter 2004 Operating Results Company Reports Revenues of $87.1 Million, Progress with WebLink Integration and Continued Reduction in Operating Expenses 6-Aug-2004 Alexandria, VA, Friday, August 6, 2004—Metrocall Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTOH), a leading provider of paging and wireless messaging services, today announced total revenues for the second quarter of 2004 of $87.1 million and net income of $7.2 million for the quarter compared to revenues of $90.7 million and net income of $7.5 million for the first quarter of 2004. On May 17, 2004 Metrocall redeemed the remaining $6.8 million aggregate liquidation balance of its series A preferred (series A) stock outstanding. As of June 30, 2004 Metrocall had cash and cash equivalents of $26.7 million, compared to $14.7 million on March 31, 2004. Metrocall Wireless President & CEO Vince Kelly stated, “Metrocall’s free cash flow-based business strategy over the past year and a half enabled us to achieve another important milestone in the second quarter, the redemption of the balance of our series A preferred stock, satisfying a closing condition to our Arch merger transaction and marking the full retirement of all long-term debt and series A obligations well ahead of the schedule specified in our 2002 Plan of Reorganization. We continue to focus on our improving retention of our direct subscriber base, which lost fewer subscribers during the quarter as compared to the first quarter. The majority of our subscriber attrition was in the indirect channels, as opposed to our higher RPU direct base, the channel that generates the majority of the Company’s revenues.” Metrocall reported 3,003,391 ending subscribers for the quarter ended June 30, 2004, representing a reduction of 222,031 as compared to March 31, 2004. This reduction was comprised of 205,961 traditional units and 16,070 advanced messaging (two-way) units. Average revenue per unit in service was $7.42 for traditional and $18.17 for advanced messaging, representing an increase of $0.18 and a decrease of $0.52 per unit, respectively from the three months ended March 31, 2004. Metrocall’s direct base (which includes both one-way paging and two-way paging) was reduced by 72,442 subscribers during the second quarter, as opposed to the 90,871 direct subscribers lost during the first quarter. Metrocall’s indirect base (which also includes both one-way paging and two-way paging) was reduced by 149,589 subscribers during the second quarter, compared to 148,651 subscribers during the first quarter. Of the subscriber unit reduction between the first and second quarters of 2004, approximately 67.4% and 32.6% were from the indirect and direct channels respectively, compared to 62.1% and 37.9% between the fourth quarter of 2003 and the first quarter of 2004. RPU for the direct channel was $11.19 in the second quarter vs. $11.44 in the first quarter. RPU for the indirect channel was $2.84 in the second quarter vs. $2.28 in the first quarter. Overall, compared to first quarter results, the second quarter 2004 total revenue loss was $3.6 million or 4%. Operating expenses including, cost of products sold, service, rent and maintenance, selling and marketing and general and administrative expenses (but excluding stock-based, depreciation and amortization expenses) for the second quarter of 2004 totaled approximately $62.6 million compared to $64.4 million reported for the first quarter. Operating expenses however included approximately $3.0 million in the second quarter and $1.1 million for the first quarter in general and administrative expenses related to legal and other expenses associated with the proposed merger between Metrocall and Arch Wireless, Inc. Overall operating expenses, independent of costs incurred for the Metrocall/Arch merger preparation, were reduced by approximately $3.7 million or 5.8%, and capital expenditures of $3.9 million were 18% lower. Kelly further stated, “Metrocall’s integration of the former assets of WebLink Wireless, acquired in November 2003, influenced second quarter operating results and further cost containment targets are expected to be achieved as the integration nears completion in the months ahead. Metrocall paid $2.4 million in income tax estimates during the quarter and expects to pay in a range of $9.0 million to $11.0 million for 2004. During the quarter we also continued to make significant progress on planning for the integration of Metrocall and Arch.” The Company reported basic and diluted earnings per share of $1.30 and $1.24 respectively compared to basic and diluted earnings per share of $1.38 and $1.31, respectively for the quarter ended March 31, 2004. On March 29, 2004, Metrocall announced the execution of a definitive merger agreement with Arch Wireless, Inc. A new holding company, USA Mobility, Inc., has been formed to own both Arch and Metrocall. Under terms of the agreement, Arch and Metrocall shareholders will own approximately 72.5% and 27.5% of USA Mobility, Inc., respectively and Metrocall shareholders will also receive $150 million in cash for 2 million shares of Metrocall common stock. The merger is subject to shareholder and various regulatory approvals. Arch and Metrocall have made various applications for these approvals and have developed a joint proxy/registration statement to obtain shareholder approvals. An amendment to the joint proxy/registration statement was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 23, 2004 by USA Mobility, Inc., formerly Wizards-Patriots Holdings, Inc. Arch and Metrocall anticipate the merger to be completed in the late third or early fourth quarters of 2004. About Metrocall Wireless, Inc. Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 Source: Metrocall Press Release Glenayre Announces Second Quarter 2004 Results
Atlanta, GA—August 3, 2004—Glenayre Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEMS), today reported today reported revenue of $12.2 million for the second quarter of 2004 compared to $10.2 million for the first quarter of 2004 and $14.6 million for the second quarter of 2003. The Company attributed the increase in revenue over the first quarter of 2004 primarily to product sales to new and existing international customers and to an increased volume of services. The decrease in revenue from the second quarter of 2003 was due to reduced capital spending by the Company’s customers for the Company’s products. Revenue for the second quarter of 2004 was less than anticipated due to customers moving the delivery dates beyond June 30, 2004 for a few significant orders that the Company received during the second quarter. The Company has remaining liabilities of $4.7 million related to the discontinued paging operations at June 30, 2004. These liabilities consist of lease commitments, foreign business tax provisions and other estimated costs associated with exiting the paging business. The Company anticipates that approximately $1.0 million of the $4.7 million of liabilities related to the discontinued operations will be disbursed in the second half of 2004 and the remainder in 2005 and beyond. Source: Glenayre Press Release MetroPCS revises first-quarter results upward 2:00 PM CDT Tuesday MetroPCS Inc., a Dallas-based wireless-phone company says that it understated its revenue and profit for the first quarter, in its first-quarter financial report, earlier this year. The disclosure came a week after the company announced that it was delaying an initial public offering, saying that it was reviewing its accounting and expected to restate the results. The company previously reported $173 million in revenue and $10.8 million in net income, but the revenue figure was $845,000 less than should have been reported, and the profit was understated by $503,000, the company now says. In March, after almost four years in bankruptcy, MetroPCS announced that it was topping off its comeback with one of Dallas-Fort Worth's biggest initial public offerings. Analysts predicted that the deal would be worth about $250 million, putting it among the top five or six local IPOs of the last few years, and predicted the fast-growing company would use the funds to boost its cash position and make acquisitions. The company did not say if or when it will reschedule the stock sale. Formed in 1996 by two former executives [Roger Linquist] of the Dallas paging company PageMart [later WebLink], the company, then operating under the name General Wireless, obtained 14 licenses in a federal auction to provide wireless phone service. Since then, the troubled company has experienced a number of financial difficulties, including the downgrading its outstanding debt to "junk" status by Moody's Investor Service, last December. MetroPCS launched a comeback plan this year and its results so far have been better than expected, analysts say. Source: Dallas Business Journal |
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From: Curtis Rock Brad, In the ongoing discussion of paging industry status, I would like to add a few nuggets. For years, WaveWare has been providing value add solutions, using paging carrier services where it made sense. We have been a Weblink Wireless reseller for many years. When various specialized wireless data delivery jobs arise, we consider one way or two way paging services as an option. We have consistently found that delivering data via common carrier paging has been too expensive to be able to support the business model. Only a few instances in our company's history has common carrier paging been successfully used as an ongoing specialized wireless data delivery service. In the late 90's the paging common carriers changed names and spouted how they were going to help get value add services created as new revenue streams. I attempted to help that vision happen, but I found the paging common carriers did not have the flexibility to allow timely experimentation and collaboration on making some of these ideas work. Example 1: CELLULAR DATA DELIVERY COSTS LESS—I recently had a potential customer that wanted to deliver SMS messages to LED message boards in sports bars. We looked at paging, which costs me, before markups, approximately 25 cents per 80 characters, for one way paging. The customer already uses GSM modems in initiating SMS message output from his server. He says he can deliver an SMS message for 5 cents per message. We have found that GSM modem modules are available at cost effective pricing. Not only is the message delivery cost lower, but it is validated data delivery. Example 2: INTERNET DATA DELIVERY COSTS LESS—I recently worked with some former paging company executives who had the neat idea of delivering news content to LED message boards wirelessly. They confidently developed the web site infrastructure and sign control systems to allow customers to receive both broadcast information as well as their custom defined messages. When it came to negotiate with their former employers to deliver the data via the REFLEX paging infrastructure, sticker shock set in, blowing the business model. They responded by routing the data over the internet, and making a short wireless hop within the customer's facility using 802.11g wireless adapters, allowing the business model to work. As a further example of the leverage of the internet, I am currently working with a Fortune 500 company to create their own low cost regional paging system infrastructure by controlling multiple paging encoder/transmitters over their WAN, all operating on the same RF channel, with no overlaps. Example 3: SERVICE IS DECLINING—I am finding that many medical facilities around the U.S. have been relying on paging common carriers for all of their paging needs, because they could get regional paging coverage in addition to their primary in-building coverage. Thus, they were willing to pay the paging carriers $7 per month per pager, plus overage, to keep the system running. The paging carriers were able to get some of these customers by ensuring low latency on message delivery times, allowing both code alert messaging in addition to business messaging. The consolidation of the paging carriers is causing them to lose sight of what got them into the hospitals in the first place (service and coverage). One hospital customer I recently spoke to says that they had great service and low message delivery latency on a VHF channel. Due to consolidation in the industry, and standardization onto nationwide 900 band channels, the customer is seeing high message delivery latency, and poorly refurbished Motorola pagers being provided during the VHF to 900 band changeover. I am confident that further degradation of the paging common carrier business will occur when hospitals again get properly serviced with either their own paging infrastructure or someone that steps in to compete with the carriers by providing city level paging services with priority delivery for the hospital code alarm messaging. When a typical hospital uses up to 1,000 or more pagers, it doesn't take long to conclude that this is gravy for the carriers, and that they run a high risk of losing these long time customers. When you find that 80% of the paging users in a medical facility only need in-building coverage range, there is a high incentive to replace those common carrier pagers with a customer owned paging system solution. The paging companies are sitting with poorly used data delivery infrastructure, and are not adjusting their pricing to allow creative value add business models to be developed, while competing with the alternative delivery solutions. In addition, I am sure that a poll of customers would indicate that service levels are declining, causing an acceleration in the decline of the industry. Regards, Curtis Rock More thoughts on the RIM/ReFLEX comparison Hi Brad, I was very interested in Jim Page’s comments on the ReFLEX/RIM relative levels of success. It is certainly good to hear from Jim again, one of the real Gurus of the wireless messaging industry and a friend for more than 25 years. I hope and trust that all is well with him! I believe that ongoing discussion of this our history is important, not so that we can correct the past, we can’t, but because those who refuse to study their history are doomed to repeat it. With regard to Jim’s analysis of the RIM success, I agree that avoiding the “Paging” label was a wise move. But many in the FLEX/ReFLEX industry also attempted to change or shift emphasis away from “Paging”. PageMart, for example, became WebLink Wireless. At that time, the WEB and everything associated with it was booming and so, from a labeling alone point of view, WebLink would appear to have been on the right track. But it takes more than clever labeling to produce success. Secondly, with regard to the views of the “financial world”, in a service providing industry, such as public paging, it is axiomatic that substantial capital investment, covering both infrastructure and subscriber device purchases, is initially required with the promise that:
For a number of earlier years the paging industry did enjoy good support from the investment bankers. (Consider the numerous large networks that were established and the many investment bankers who participated therein). In too many cases, however, the promised profits never materialized and, somewhat predictably, over time the bankers became disenchanted. While it is tempting to criticize the investment community, I think we need to understand their rules. They invest to earn profits. And we didn't’t produce profits according to their accepted schedule. A major contributor to this elusive profitability, I believe, was unrestrained (or at least under-restrained) technological change. Just as service providers approached the point when initial investment was paid down and profits might begin, a new technology was introduced requiring still more investment and thus deferring profitability! Most seriously, many of the costly changes were not truly driven by subscriber demand for improved functionality. Consider the shift from POCSAG-512/1200/2400 to FLEX (not to mention GOLAY), 150 MHz to 900 MHz etc. Each of these migrations were costly, but in many senses they were invisible to subscribers, they offered little in the way of feature enhancement and they sometimes even undermined pager performance. Then consider the introduction of InFLEXion & ReFLEX. While these migrations certainly offered new functionality, in many cases they did not respond to certifiable user preferences and demands. For example, our ReFLEX systems never supported wireless e-mail in a manner acceptable to large numbers of subscribers. RIM did, and, in fact, I believe that RIM’s e-mail capabilities are a major reason for the popularity of the RIM service. Also, Jim has expressed concern with regard to the impact of regulatory decisions regarding deregulation that, he states, is attractive politically but is “not the most efficient use of radio spectrum”. Although I agree that the emergence of competition from wideband technologies was a major contributor to the decline of paging, I find it hard to argue with the efficiency of spectrum management philosophies, which has resulted in the creation of systems, which today serve approximately 176 million cellular subscribers. With regard to product development, timing is most important. Consider InFLEXion technology. InFLEXion did offer a somewhat unique ability to send complete messages from any telephone, which were then the most universally used communications devices and, had we been able to deliver InFLEXion in the early 90’s, before the Internet simplified the sending of text as a complete message alternative, I believe it could have been much more successful. Equally, in the early 90’s cellular had not become ubiquitous and cellular service was still quite expensive. But by the time we were able to deliver InFLEXion, cellular was booming allowing the populace not only to receive voice messages from any telephone, but also to reply immediately and to originate messages. And all of this with better voice quality than InFLEXion could ever provide. Classically, as its subscriber base grew, cellular prices fell and InFLEXion was doomed. Consider also the impact that the time, money, and human resources devoted to InFLEXion had on the development of ReFLEX. Additionally, although I share the respect for RIM and the fact that they remain profitable expressed by Jim and others, I believe that the RIM “success” is being overstated. Consider the following:
And yet, the most recently released figures indicate that approximately 1.3 million RIM devices are in service today (after at least 6 or 7 years). Compared to Verizon’s recently released figures, which indicate 1.5 million new cellular subscribers additions in the last quarter [2Q]. One quarter—one carrier—1.5 million new subscribers! So, even if the various misadventures alluded to above, as well as issues pointed out by others, had been avoided, I don’t believe that paging would have succeeded indefinitely. In time, the nearly universal appeal of cellular telephone would have prevailed pushing paging into decline. But the slide could have been more graceful and less painful. And finally, what about the future? Is there indeed a future for paging? I for one think that there is although I think it will be a smaller, less glamorous, more routine future than that to which we once aspired. In order to have any future at all, however, I am convinced that industry technical people need to:
I recognize that all of the above suggestions are currently being attempted, but I believe that we need to maintain our focus with extraordinary vigil. Also, the above is not intended to reduce discussion, because good ideas do ensue from discussion, but simply to limit expenditures of money and resource until market potentials are fully appraised. Regards, From: Alexandre Mongeon-Lambert <make_one@hotmail.com> hi. my name is joe. i aint sure if thats the real problem but i would like you to tell me right away. ill f--kn sew your ass. thank you. dont make me wait too long b--ch... or ill f--k you up. From: brad@braddye.com Dear Alexandre, I only wish I could publish this delightful message in my newsletter. This is the best laugh I have had all day. Since I don't believe that anyone is this ignorant, I guess this is a joke from one of my friends. Thanks a lot. Oh, by the way what is a ctf175? Best regards, Brad Dye From: Alexandre Mongeon-Lambert <make_one@hotmail.com> dear brad. the ctf 175 is a f--king pager. and it doesnt work dont think im ur friend causei aint and call me ignoant once again and ull see ur house infront of a fire squad NOVEMBER PTC MEETING It's time to firm up the details for the next PTC meeting. At the last AAPC meeting, it was suggested that we have the PTC coincide with the next AAPC meeting in Phoenix area. The AAPC will be having a meeting/show Nov 3-5 at a resort with some vendor table top displays and some education tracks. The proposed date for the PTC meeting would be November 2-3. I think we could have afternoon of the 2nd for subcommittee meetings and morning of the 3rd (thru lunch) for the the regular committee meeting (and to finish up/review sub meetings, if necessary). There is an AAPC reception on the evening of the 3rd. I need to set the date very soon so AAPC can help get us meeting rooms. We still need a sponsor for refreshments. Thanks Stephen M. Oshinsky |
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Daviscomms USA Inc. is your direct connection to Daviscomms (S) Pte Ltd., the leading pager manufacturer in the world with many years experience in Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing of highly-reliable, premium-quality FLEX and POCSAG Alphanumeric and Numeric pagers. Daviscomms offers unparalleled quality, features and functions. We perform our own stringent quality testing as well as certification by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to meet all of their standards. All of our paging products meet FCC and IC Standards for use in the USA and Canada. Our manufacturing facility, located in Malaysia, is a 40,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility. Customers, globally, choose Daviscomms for our QUALITY, RELIABILITY, ON-TIME DELIVERY, COMPETITIVE PRICING and our TOTAL COMMITMENT to providing the best value for their needs.
At Daviscomms, we are proud to provide our customers with end-to-end manufacturing solutions while delivering superior quality and support. Daviscomms is at the forefront of the industry with its commitment to leading-edge technology, cost-effective manufacturing and the highest degree of customer service. Daviscomms delivers low cost, high volume manufacturing solutions to our customers. We help maximize time-to-market objectives while minimizing procurement, materials management, and manufacturing costs. For information about our contract manufacturing services or our Bravo-branded line of numeric and alphanumeric pagers, please call Bob Popow, our Director of Operations for the Americas, 480-515-2344. (Scottsdale, Arizona) or visit our website www.daviscommsusa.com.
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RTS Wireless ADVX System Programming Concepts, Inc. provides authorized RTS ADVX Wireless Gateway Support & Enhancements. Our RTS lab includes source code control, development tools, and test beds for all deployed RTS systems. Call now to sign-up for our first class support of your aging RTS system. More info ... PCI (www.programmingconcepts.com) has been in business for 24 years providing custom application programming for medium to large businesses. PCI's primary business segments include web enabled application development, financial industry systems, telephony (IVR, CTI, and Wireless), Secure Enterprise Instant Messaging System, Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (MS-CRM) Applications, and a wide variety of commercial applications. Contact Sales sales@programmingconcepts.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DX Radio Systems, Inc. manufactures high quality, high specification type communications products. The following is a list of products that DX Radio Systems, Inc. manufactures or supplies as a single supplied product and can be included as part of a turnkey system:
Performance that is tough to find anywhere at a price you can afford.
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What do you think? Is there market potential for this product? How about HIPAA? |
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SBC Foundation Gives $1 Million Grant To Amber Alert Network To Improve Technology To Find Missing Children U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison And SBC Chairman And Ceo Ed Whitacre Announce SBC Excelerator Grant For State Law Enforcement To Enhance Amber Alerts San Antonio, Texas, August 2, 2004 SBC Communications Inc. is answering the call of the national AMBER Alert Plan with a $1 million grant in technology funding to support law enforcement officers in protecting families throughout the SBC 13-state region. The national SBC Excelerator AMBER Alert grant program is provided through the SBC Foundation—the philanthropic arm of SBC Communications—to help law enforcement agencies enhance the management and dissemination of their AMBER Alerts. The AMBER Alert program was created in 1996 when Dallas/Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with local police to develop an early warning system to help find 9-year old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then murdered. On Sept. 3, 2002, Sen. Hutchison, co-introduced legislation to establish a nationwide communications-warning network in child abduction cases. Her proposal was signed into law by President George W. Bush on April 20, 2003 as part of the PROTECT Act. Source: SBC Corporate Press Release |
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www.gtesinc.com GTES is the only Glenayre authorized software support provider to the paging industry. The GTES team consists of highly qualified and seasoned associates who were formerly a part of Glenayre's paging infrastructure support and engineering operations. We are poised and ready to "Partner" with you to ensure the viability of your network, reduce your long-term cost of ownership, and to provide future solutions for profitability. GTES will offer product sales, maintenance services, software development and product development to the wireless industry. GTES SUITE OF PRODUCTS GTES Partner Program Product Sales On-Site Services Software Development Product Training CALL US TODAY FOR YOUR SUPPORT NEEDS | Intelligent Paging & Mobile Data Hardware & Software
Selective is a developer and manufacturer of highly innovative paging receiver/decoders and mobile data equipment. The PDT2000 Paging Data Terminal is THE MOST INTELLIGENT PAGING RECEIVER IN THE MARKET. The PDT2000 is a large display pager designed for desktop or in-vehicle mounting and is widely used by emergency services and in onsite paging systems for forklift dispatch etc. All of the following capabilities are standard features of the PDT2000 and of our other paging data receivers:
Our mobile data equipment includes a range of Mobile Data Terminals (MDTs) which may be interfaced to a variety of wireless networks including trunked and conventional radio, GPRS & CDMA cellular, Mobitex etc. Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and GPS solutions, Dispatch & Messaging software. We offer mobile communications dealers and systems integrators a "fast to market" job dispatch and job management capability. Specialised local area paging systems, paging interception and message reprocessing software, field force automation and mobile dispatch solutions. We export worldwide.
I am an authorized Manufacturer Representative for Selective Communications. Please contact me directly for any additional information.
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| Paging Training Course Specially designed course for sales, marketing, and administration personnel. Engineers will only be admitted with a note signed by their mothers, promising that they will just listen and not disrupt the class. (This is supposed to be funny!) This is a one-day training course on paging that can be conducted at your place of business. Please take a look at the course outline to see if you think this might be beneficial in your employees: Paging training course outline. I would be happy to customize the content to meet your specific requirements. Although it touches on several "technical" topics, it is definitely not a technical course. I used to teach the sales and marketing people at Motorola Paging and they appreciated an atmosphere where they could ask technical questions without being made to feel like a dummy and without getting a long convoluted overly-technical answer that left them more confused than before. A good learning environment is one that is non-threatening. Let me know if you would like to receive a quotation, or if you would like to have any additional information. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PAGING TECHNICIAN Mark Hood mehood@cox.net Telephone: 757-588-0537 Paging Field Engineer/Electronic technician in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Download resumé here. |
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Group to propose new high-speed wireless format The proposed 802.11n Wi-Fi standard could offer speeds of up to 540MB/sec. AUGUST 12, 2004 (REUTERS)—A group of technology companies, including Texas Instruments Inc., STMicroelectronics and Broadcom Corp., today said it will propose a new wireless networking standard that offers up to 10 times the speed of the current generation. The group says it is submitting a plan for a new standard for the popular Wi-Fi technology -- which is being increasingly used in airports, hotels and coffee shops to offer Internet access. The group, calling itself WWiSE, said its version of an 802.11n standard would be compatible with the technology currently in use, known by various code names such as 802.11b and 802.11g. Their technology could operate at speeds of up to 540 Mbit/sec. The group said it planned to submit its proposal to the task force at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers charged with developing an 802.11n standard. The group's proposed version would peak at a speed of 540Mbit/sec., requiring the use of a larger communications channel for the signal than most jurisdictions allow. Using the more standard channel size, the 802.11n proposal would peak at 135Mbit/sec. They also said they would license the patents necessary to implement their version of 802.11n on a royalty-free basis. Other companies taking part in the WWiSE group are Airgo Networks Inc., Bermai Inc. and Conexant Systems Inc. Source: Computerworld |
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Wow—lots of news this week! I hope you enjoyed it. The best parts of this newsletter are the news reports and the opinion articles that are sent in by readers. We have been very fortunate to have received articles from people who really know this business—engineers, scientists, senior managers, and respected leaders of our industry. Once in a while we get something from a "crackpot" like the two abusive e-mails this week, but that is very rare—actually the first time it has happened. So I want to encourage everyone to continue sending in opinion articles and to share any news of interest as soon as you hear about it. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and this is where you can publish yours—as long as I don't have to add too many "dashes" to the words, and it is pertinent to our topics covered here. I hope you have a great weekend. Keep in touch.
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The developer of an AES Pager Encryption System, currently implemented in VHF POCSAG is willing to discuss the possibility of customizing this product for the US or other markets if there is sufficient interest. Please see the brief presentation on this very interesting product that follows, and let me know if you are interested. Operation on 900 MHz using the FLEX protocol is a possibility. 
read the whole press release here 
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The Advisor II pager's alphanumeric four-line display and expanded functionality incorporate many of the most advanced paging features available. A major advantage of the Advisor II pager is that it is synthesized which enables the user to program the pager to a specific frequency in the field. Other features of the Advisor II pager include: 
The LS355 numeric pager enables users to receive a "call-back" number that can be returned at the user's convenience. This pager has a one-button design for ease of use. Features of the new LS355 pager include: 
If you see someone in the field (like salespeople, technicians, and delivery people) using paper forms, their company could probably save a pile of money, and get much better timeliness, accuracy and efficiency, by using converting to Outr.Net's Wireless Forms. Custom applications for as little as $995, delivered in just a few days.Outr.Net has a web page on Wireless Forms for Timeports at: 
