Think *Wireless*...CWSS,WCII,(LWIN) and NXTL which finished yesterday on the years' high, which in the case of NXTL, may be a signal to buy more. Rumors of an aquisition for NXTL in the mid-fifties, and it sure looks attractive here.
**On the most happiest note, achieved a double on QCOM since since mid march and the settlement with Erickson dispute on the CDMA patents. This one pays for all my higher education for the next millenea, up to and including, senility! LOL! *QCOM* has been the strongest running stock in the last month on either exchange, and is still running to split! Wireless represents the one of the ultimate in freedoms to connect, internut,person-to business, internut to person, business to business,etc. And the technology in this sector is astounding with the deploy of a global low-fly satelite net, in the very near future. This sector Strong and hot! And think of all those cell-phones people will be buying with those tax-returns! 35,000
a week!
**NXTL** just got a feeling something good....
Wireless Services Announces Nextel Delivered More Than One Million Wireless Internet Messages in February
McLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999--
-- Messaging Service From Wireless Services Reaches
Milestone After One Year of Active Service, Highlighting
Growing Demand for Text Messaging --
Wireless Services Corporation and Nextel Communications (Nasdaq:NXTL) today announced more than one million wireless Internet messages were delivered to Nextel subscribers in the month of February
-- the greatest number of messages delivered in any month to date after a year of active service.
"The demand for our Internet-based text paging is soaring," said Steve Wood, president and CEO of Wireless Services. "The Internet is the goose that laid the golden egg -- driving a whole new crop of products and services that are being snatched up by convenience-hungry consumers."
The advanced messaging market is expected to see triple-digit annual growth between now and the year 2001, with the number of subscribers peaking at 17 million that year, according to a Frost & Sullivan analysis of the U.S. narrowband messaging market.
"Customers are demanding an efficient way to instantly receive text messages," said Tom Kelly, Nextel's chief marketing officer. "Logging onto their laptops isn't convenient for busy, time-starved professionals. Wireless Services allows us to offer our customers an Internet paging service using the handsets they already own. It benefits the customers and it benefits us because we can easily satisfy the growing demand for convenient text/numeric paging."
The service works like this: Wireless Services' AirNote(R) system provides a gateway that allows the delivery of text messages to Nextel phones from any personal computer with access to the Internet, simply by addressing the message to any 10-digit Nextel telephone number. The sender can also receive notification that their message was delivered by logging onto Nextel's online paging center. Notification can be received at the web site or sent to the sender's Nextel phone or any email address. Nextel is the only wireless telephone network in the country to offer message delivery status notification.
"We always want to offer our customers the most innovative services," said Kelly. "The wireless phone industry is flooded with competitors and we have to do everything we can to provide better services and more options. Wireless Services has given our company just that -- better service and more options for our customers."
About Nextel Communications
Nextel Communications, based in McLean, Va., is the leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the United States that covers 92 of the top 100 U.S. markets. The Nextel National Network offers a fully integrated wireless communications tool with digital cellular, text/numeric paging and Nextel Direct Connect(sm) -- a digital two-way radio feature. In addition, through Nextel International, Inc., Nextel has wireless operations and investments in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the Philippines, Peru, Japan and Shanghai, China. Visit Nextel's web site at nextel.com
About Wireless Services
Founded in 1996, Wireless Services Corp. focuses on providing applications and information services to wireless carriers and the business community. Wireless Services' key expertise includes wireless technology, Internet communications, and database and computer server solutions. The company's flagship service is AirNote(R), a wireless e-mail service which delivers Internet mail across paging and digital telephone networks in the United States. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. For more information, visit Wireless Services' web site at wirelesscorp.com
Nextel and Nextel Direct Connect are trademarks
think wireless :-)
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