One of their featured recommendations is a former maker of one-way pagers, Arch Wireless (nasdaq: AWIN - news - people ).

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But that does not mean that wireless data is non-existent across the Atlantic: Americans have pagers for their messages.

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This was a time when Motorola owned the nascent mobile phone business, pagers were mostly one-way, and the only uses I could find for wireless data beyond simple messaging were telemetry (look it up) and logistics management for trucking companies.

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Atlanta-based EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ), the No. 3 Internet service provider in the U.S., is now offering wireless Internet service to not just Blackberry and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) pagers, but also to devices based on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) operating system and Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) PocketPC platform.

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