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Business
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Business
Business — On July 8, 2014, the Company changed its name from USA Mobility, Inc. to Spōk Holdings, Inc.
Spōk Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “SPŌK” or the “Company”), through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Spōk, Inc., is a comprehensive provider of critical communication solutions for the enterprise. As a single source provider, the Company operates the largest one-way paging and advanced two-way paging networks in the United States and provides mission critical unified communication software solutions nationally and internationally (in Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East).
Effective January 1, 2014 the legal entity, Amcom Software, Inc. ("Amcom"), was merged into Spōk, Inc. (formerly USA Mobility Wireless, Inc.), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Spōk Holdings, Inc. Our sole operating subsidiary is now Spōk, Inc. In addition, management was reorganized to consolidate the separate management structures for the wireless and software segments into one integrated management structure. Effective January 1, 2014 the Company is structured as one operating (and reportable) segment, a unified communication business.