11.  It is expected to spark a new wave of acquisitions of smaller paging companies, analysts said.

12.  It has put money into small businesses including a pasta plant and a cannery in rural Hungary and a paging company in Brazil.

13.  Pagers, typically rented by subscribers, are the single largest capital cost of a paging company, he said.

14.  Pronet Inc. and Metrocall Inc. are two smaller paging companies that may be acquired, Hines said.

15.  Recently, Rubin invested in Arch Communications Group, a paging company based in Westborough, Mass.

16.  Several paging companies are offering customers new types of customized services, including news headlines, stock quotes, travel information, and sports scores.

17.  Sting asked him about the pager he carries, and Ledesma got a laugh when he explained he worked for a paging company.

18.  Ten years ago, Jenkins became one of the statistics of the recession when he bought a small paging company two weeks before the stock market crashed.

19.  The paging companies were then applying for cellular telephone licenses.

20.  Three established paging companies -- Page Mart Inc., Advanced Wireless Messaging and Mobilmedia Communications Inc. -- each won a license for all five regions of the country.