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News Release from: Hemisphere GPS
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 February 2006
GSM wireless phone technology
distribution
CSI Wireless has secured experienced international distributors for its new fixed wireless phones featuring GSM technology.
CSI Wireless , a designer and manufacturer of advanced wireless and GPS products used in more than 50 countries,has announced from the 3GSM World Congress here in Barcelona that it has secured experienced international distributors for CSI's new fixed wireless phones featuring GSM technology Access Telecom, Anglo-Nordic and Wireless Market Rendszerhaz Kft (WM) have all agreed to distribute CSI Wireless new 405 Series and 415 Series GSM phones
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Access Telecom will distribute the phones in the Americas starting in April, Anglo Nordic will distribute them in Finland starting immediately, and WM will distribute them in Hungary starting immediately.
Access Telecom is a distribution provider to the wireless communications industry in North America and Latin America.
It has client list that features some of the largest and best-known telecommunications manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Motorola, Kyocera, Siemens, and Handspring.
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Access Telecom distributes their products - and now CSI Wireless' products - through its global contacts with network operators, agents, resellers, dealers and retailers.
Anglo-Nordic, established in 1935, is a privately owned Finnish distributor that represents a wide variety of globally recognized brands including NOKIA, Hitachi, Clarion, CASIO, Cross, KODAK, HEAD, Pentel and Rapid.
Finland boasts one of the world's highest wireless telephone penetration rates, with fixed wireless phones becoming increasingly popular in home and office environments as replacements for traditional landline phones.
WM is a Hungarian distributor specializing in wireless mobile data communication products.
It maintains very close contacts with Hungary's GSM network operators, system integrators and application developers, and is able to provide GPRS communication devices for various information technology interfaces.
Hungary has become a popular test market for many major wireless hardware and service providers, including T-Mobile and Vodafone.
"We enthusiastically welcome these distribution partners," said Stephen Verhoeff, CSI Wireless' President and CEO.
"Access Telecom, Anglo-Nordic and Wireless Market Rendszerhaz Kft are leading international distributors that will help us continue to aggressively expand the market reach of our GSM and TDMA fixed-wireless product lines." CSI Wireless new 405 Series phone is an entry-level fixed wireless product for consumers wanting superior voice and text-messaging services at a very affordable price.
The new 415 Series phone is for consumers wanting not only superior voice and text-messaging, but Internet and email (via a PC connection) and speaker phone capability too.
Both phones are designed and built by CSI Wireless, and available to cellular carriers and retailers for their customized branding.
CSI Wireless offers two versions of its 405 Series phone - the 405a Series for the Americas, and the 405e Series for Europe and the rest of the world.
CSI also offers two comparable versions of its 415 Series phone - the 415a Series and the 415e Series.
The 405a Series and 405e Series phones feature: - A high-performance receiver and as much as two-watt output power to ensure maximum operational range, including cellular networks' "fringe" areas - A strong back-up battery to provide three hours of emergency talk time and 48 hours of emergency stand-by time during power outages - SMS text-messaging - Four-digit PIN security to limit who can make outgoing non- emergency calls - LCD back-lit screen, tilted for easy viewing - Memory capacity for 250 phone numbers - A user-friendly interface designed specifically for fixed wireless telephones - Multiple languages - Attractive styling The 415a Series and 415e Series phones offer all of the same outstanding features, plus: - GPRS wireless technology to enable data transmissions - Internet and email - A large, tilted LCD back-lit screen for even easier viewing - Speaker phone - Memory capacity for 1,000 phone numbers CSI Wireless is one of the world's leading suppliers of fixed wireless telephones - offering both GSM-based and TDMA-based models.
CSI's Motorola- branded Motorola FX800t product is the largest-selling TDMA fixed wireless phone in Latin America.
CSI Wireless entered the enormous India market last month, becoming one of three suppliers to India's largest cellular carrier, which has initiated a national launch of fixed wireless telephones.
CSI has purchase orders for an initial shipment of 30,000 GSM phones.
India is the world's fastest-growing market for fixed wireless phones, with more than 200,000 new subscribers being added each month, says the Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India.
Fixed wireless phones enable rapid, low-cost telecommunications for millions of consumers in regions of the world where traditional copper-wire landline phone service is unavailable or unaffordable.
Compared to portable cellular phones, fixed wireless phones provide much broader signal range and voice quality.
They don't require battery recharging because they plug into standard electrical outlets.
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