Alphanumeric pagers extend their reach

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Alphanumeric pagers are gaining attention as tools for communicating with workers. The pagers can display messages that are several lines long. They cost $150 and up, about twice as much as numbers-only pagers. Monthly service costs about $20 to $30 per month, or twice as much as digital pagers. Still, the cost is lower than for cellular phones or portable computers equipped for wireless communication. Telocator, a trade group, reports that sales of alphanumeric pagers are growing by 27 percent annually, compared to a 15 percent growth rate for digital pagers. At present, 7 percent of the 14 million pagers in the United States are alphanumeric. Some companies are selling information via alphanumeric pagers. For example, National Dispatch Center Inc, which provides an operator-answering service for more than 500 paging firms nationwide, sells a $60 service that pages subscribers whenever stocks in their portfolio move a specified amount.

Telecommunications industry, Communications industry, Information services, Growth (Physiology), Growth, Alphanumeric Display

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Stop, thief! AT&T's Roseanna DeMaria leads the effort to combat cellular-phone fraud

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Roseanna DeMaria, an attorney with AT&T, has organized an increasingly successful campaign to thwart cellular-phone fraud. Cellular fraud had become a significant threat to wireless services, with bandits using scanners to capture telephone code numbers and using them for billing. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials, busy with other, seemingly more important concerns, tended to downplay the problem's importance. DeMaria, who formerly oversaw narcotics prosecutions for the New York City district attorney's office, disagreed. When she joined AT&T Wireless Services, in 1994, she set out to alert responsible officials to the fact that large-scale criminal enterprises, such as drug cartels, were using stolen numbers as a way to maintain their anonymity.

Cellular Mobile Radio Services, Cellular and Other Wireless Telecommunications, Company legal issue, Cases, Cellular telephone services industry, Cellular telephone services, Crimes against, Prevention, Fraud, Computer crime, Computer crimes, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.

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More teens can't live without beepers

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Teenagers are eagerly buying beepers, believing the devices give greater freedom and privacy. The entire consumer segment of the market is growing rapidly. Telelocator, a beeper-industry group, predicts that 4.1 million beepers will be sold in 1992, up from 3.7 million in 1991. Motorola Inc controls 85 percent of the half-billion-dollar annual market. About 12 million beepers, or pagers, are currently in use, most by private companies. Beepers are rising in popularity as their prices fall; the cheapest beepers cost as little as $60, with monthly fees averaging $9 to $15. Motorola's line of colored pagers is especially popular with teens.

Radio & TV communications equipment, Product information, Consumer electronics, Telecommunications equipment industry, Telecommunications systems, Children, Teenagers, Youth, Market Analysis

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