About Us

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, A Beep continues to grow and provide quality wireless services to Northern Illinois. A Beep is an authorized dealer for Kenwood Communications, Tait, HYT, Zetron and Icom.

Licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as a private paging carrier, A Beep built a satellite-delivered one-way paging network covering the greater Chicago area in 1996. Also in 1996, A Beep purchased the 2-way radio and paging assets of Telecom, Inc. located in Joliet, Illinois.

In 2002, A Beep purchased the assets of JB Communications in Schiller Park, Illinois that included an extensive customer base, FCC licenses and a prime rooftop communications site lease downtown Chicago, Illinois.
 
A Beep was an early pioneer in building LTR trunked radios systems in the UHF radio band. Aggressive licensing and building of sites lead to systems with extended capacity to serve a large customer base. 
    
A Beep now operates Chicagoland’s largest privately owned wireless network with assets that include the greatest number of FCC licensed UHF radio frequencies in Illinois. A Beep’s licensed assets include many “exclusive frequencies”. These exclusive frequencies were always valuable, but now with the introduction of digital radios these same frequencies can be divided and re-used increasing their value with additional loading potential.
 

2007 brought additional enhancements to many of the LTR trunked sites. These sites were “networked” into one seamless network using a digital VOIP backbone from Bridgecom Communications. These analog trunking systems now blanket the Chicagoland region.

2008 began the migration to digital. This new all-digital Diga-Talk network will provide seamless hand-held secure portable communication throughout the Chicago region. A Beep is using the newest digital “Nexedge” technology from Kenwood Communications Corporation. A Beep was an early pioneer with Nexedge and currently operates the largest Nexedge system in the world to date.
 
2009 A Beep purchased certain assets from Tri-Star Communications in Sycamore Illinois. These assets included repeaters, FCC licenses and tower leases.

2010 - 2011 Many enhancements were made to Diga-Talk system. This included the addition of towers sites and additional capacity.  Sixteen all-digital “Diga-Talk” radio tower sites are now on-line.

What's New?

We have some exciting new technology to share with you that could save you money and improve your communications.

Diga-Talk+ is an instant push to talk, 4G LTE PoC Nationwide coverage, two way radio, with GPS capabilities. This can be yours at an amazingly affordable introductory low cost. Offering portable and mobile devices.

To show you just how beneficial this can be for your company or personal needs we are offering very affordable introductory pricing.