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  2. PageNet - Wikipedia

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    PageNet, also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999.. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.

  3. Page Plus Cellular - Wikipedia

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    Page Plus Cellular was established in 1993 by Abdul Yassine, as Page Plus Communications, selling pager services in the Toledo, Ohio, area. In August 1998 the company was renamed Page Plus Cellular and launched services in Ohio and Michigan, followed by a nationwide launch in 2000. Page Plus was originally headquartered in Holland, Ohio, and ...

  4. Tellme Networks - Wikipedia

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    Number of employees. 360 (2008) [1] Tellme Networks, Inc. was an American company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue and Angus Davis, [2] which specialized in telephone-based applications. Its headquarters were in Mountain View, California . Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007, for approximately $800 million; the deal closed ...

  5. FCC fines wireless carriers millions for sharing user ... - AOL

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    April 29, 2024 at 3:38 PM. Andrew Kelly/Reuters. The US government has issued millions of dollars in fines to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon after an investigation found the nation’s top ...

  6. FCC fines wireless carriers for sharing user locations ... - AOL

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    The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers' location data without ...

  7. Operator messaging - Wikipedia

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    It is a service that consists of live operators who answer incoming calls and input the callers' messages on a computer, then transmit the message using the Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol to the paging provider's radio towers. Alphanumeric pagers receive the messages in the form of words and numbers. Messages are sequentially numbered and ...

  8. 1-800 Contacts - Wikipedia

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    1-800 Contacts Inc. is an American contact lens retailer based in Draper, Utah. The brands that 1-800 Contacts use includes Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Alcon , Bausch & Lomb and CooperVision . The company was founded as the industry's first way to buy contacts online and has since expanded to provide online prescription renewals, glasses ...

  9. Forget the nurse call button. Patients now stay connected by ...

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    The BioButton stays on the skin with an adhesive, is waterproof, and has up to a 30-day battery life. The company says the device — which allows providers to quickly notice deteriorating health ...