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RCR Wireless News, November, 2000 by BRUNO, ANTONY
Now that Arch Wireless Inc.'s acquisition of Paging Network Inc. is complete, former PageNet subsidiary Vast Solutions Inc. is free of the dead weight its former parent company represented and can begin establishing its place in a marketplace it originally helped define.
Vast was born in June 1999 out of PageNet's desire to evolve into a wireless information services firm. In many ways, the company was far ahead of its time. Vast featured both custom solution capabilities as well as outsourced management tools in a wireless application service provider model. Another small company at the time, Aether Systems Inc., was developing much the same thing.
But while Aether has sprinted ahead to lead the industry in terms of wireless Internet...
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