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Brightstar takes lead in Latin America

MIAMI, United States—Brightstar announced that its recently released second quarter 2001 revenues show it has captured the market share lead in Latin American wireless outsourcing.Brightstar's consolidated revenues came to US$102.6 million and its income was US$2.8 million for the quarter, which the company said...

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ATTW added to S&P 500AT&T Wireless Group, which has been spun off to AT&T Corp. shareholders, replaced Potlatch Corp., an integrated forest products company, in the S&P 500 Index at the close of trading July 6. Standard & Poor's Corp. said early July 6...

CellStar enters agreements with Kyocera, Ericsson

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. has entered a two-year agreement with Kyocera Wireless Corp. to distribute wireless phones and accessories in the United States, Latin America and Asia.CellStar will provide distribution and fulfillment services for Kyocera's line of digital wireless phones and accessories, including the new...

CellStar to sell Motorola phones, accessories

Logistics services provider CellStar Corp. has agreed to sell Motorola's wireless phones and accessories to carriers and dealers in the United States on terms that could rake in revenues in excess of $325 million for CellStar.The deal covers a wide array of handsets offered...

Nokia ousts Lucent as net income leader for year

NEW YORK-In this year's RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment vendors that are net income leaders.Lucent Technologies Inc., which had previously topped the charts...

Cellstar operations receive ISO certification

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced three of its operations received certifications from the International Organization for Standardization 9002 group.The ISO 9002 certifications cover manufacturing and installation.The three operations are Celular Express in Mexico, CellStar Corp. Ltd. in Hong Kong and CellStar International Trading Co. Ltd....

CellStar partners with Chinadotcom

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. entered a joint-venture agreement with Chinadotcom Corp., a pan-Asian integrated Internet company offering e-business strategies and portal and online marketing services.The agreement calls for CellStar to perform fulfillment, sales and distribution for the venture, with Chinadotcom providing development and maintenance of...

CellStar signs agreement with Equitel

CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless logistics services provider CellStar Corp. signed an agreement to provide fulfillment and distribution services in the United States for Equitel Inc., a prepaid cellular reseller.CellStar said it would provide Equitel's customers with end-user fulfillment services using its AOS On-Line and netXtreme, the...

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Czech RepublicAirspan Networks said it signed a contract with TES Media, a Czech telecommunications operator, to deploy a new fixed wireless network across the Czech Republic. TES Media's network, set to deliver high-speed data services to business customers, will launch this month. A series...

CellStar closes sale of Polish subsidiary

CARROLLTON, Texas-Value-added wireless logistics provider CellStar Corp. completed the sale of its Polish subsidiary to Phone House Polska, a subsidiary of U.K.-based The Carphone Warehouse Group plc."The sale is one of several recent actions the company has taken to focus its resources on its...

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PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...

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WirelessNorthPersonal communications services carrier WirelessNorth named David Charles president of the company. Charles served as director of operations with Montana Power Co., where he was responsible for 120 employees serving 110,000 electric and natural gas customers in the Missoula division, covering Western Montana. In...

CellStar snares Motorola deal in Latin America

CARROLLTON, Texas-Value-added wireless logistics services provider CellStar Corp. reported that its operating company, CellStar Ltd., entered into a master distributor agreement with the Latin America Group of Motorola Inc.'s Personal Communications Sector.CellStar said the agreement is expected to provide rapid and flexible product distribution...

Cellstar expects revenues to fall short of analyst estimates

CARROLLTON, Texas-Cellstar Corp. reported that, based on preliminary estimates by management, revenues and net income for the second quarter will be significantly lower than analyst estimates and the company will show a loss for the quarter.Analyst estimates for second-quarter net income for Cellstar ranged...

Handset shortage affects CellStar results

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it expects to report an increase in revenues for the fourth quarter, but the increase will fall short of company and analyst expectations.CellStar expects revenues to reach about $685 million with net income, excluding non-operating items, of between 20 cents...

CELLSTAR TO SELL GLOBALSTAR PHONES IN SOUTH AMERICA

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. and Telecommunications par Satellite Mobiles SAS signed an agreement under which CellStar will distribute Globalstar terminals in most of TE.S.A.M.'s South American territories, said the companies.CellStar also said it will provide valued-added services such as acquisition, procurement, programming, fulfillment, packaging and...

INTERNET RETAILER SUNDIAL TO MARKET CELLSTAR PRODUCTS

CARROLLTON, Texas-Sundial Marketplace Corp., a New York-based Internet retailer, and CellStar Corp. entered into a service agreement under which CellStar will provide Sundial cellular telephones, accessories and value-added services, including kitting, fulfillment, warehousing and products return processing.Sundial also will use CellStar's expanded Internet-based advanced...

FOCUS REPORTS NET LOSS, LOWER REVENUES

CHATSWORTH, Calif.-Focus Wireless Communications reported revenues for the first quarter ended June 30 of $7.5 million, a decrease from the $8.7 million reported for first-quarter 1998.The company, formerly named Intellicell Corp., experienced a net loss of $1.7 million, or 24 cents per share, compared...

CELLSTAR BUYS THE NETHERLANDS’ MOBICALL

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. acquired the business and certain net assets of Mobicall, a wholesale distributor of wireless handsets and accessory products throughout the Netherlands, said CellStar."This acquisition provides CellStar with an excellent opportunity to expand our presence in Europe and to combine CellStar's expertise...

AMERICAN WIRELESS OPENS MIAMI OFFICE

CAMPBELL, Calif.-American Wireless has opened an office in Miami to serve its expansion into Latin America. Gilbert Valdesuso, formerly with CellStar Corp., was named vice president of the operation, said the company."Using Miami as our staging area, we will focus initially on hardware distribution...

CELLSTAR SIGNS BRAZIL OPERATORS

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it agreed to provide a variety of value-added services to Telerj Celular S.A. and Telest Celular S.A., two wireless operators in the Brazilian states of Rio de Janiero and Espirito Santo. CellStar sells wireless handsets in bulk to the carriers.CellStar...

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Alltel Corp. said it signed an integration agreement with Intecom Systems under which Alltel Information Systems will fully integrate Intecom's applications into its customer-care and billing system to provide converged billing, complete billing analysis and full multimedia reporting functionality to the customers of communications...

CELLSTAR ENTERS COCELCO AGREEMENT

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced cellular service provider Cocelco S.A. in Colombia chose CellStar to provide a variety of distribution and value-added services.Under terms of the agreement, CellStar will provide a prepaid operating platform, be responsible for the packaging and distribution of accessory inventory to...

CELUMOVIL CHOOSES CELLSTAR

CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced Celumovil, the largest cellular service provider in Colombia, chose CellStar to provide distribution and value-added services.Under terms of the two-year agreement, CellStar will serve as the exclusive provider of cellular phones and accessory inventory to Celumovil and its distribution network....