Andrew Wireless Products Announces E-Fulfillment Partnerships with Verizon Wireless and CarToys.Business Editors ORLAND PARK Or·land Park A village of northeast Illinois, a residential and manufacturing suburb of Chicago. Population: 53,300. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2002 Andrew Corporation's (NASADQ:ANDW) wireless products division announced its partnership with two of the top companies in the wireless industry. Andrew is providing shopping cart websites for both Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. and CarToys. These sites offer Verizon Wireless and CarToys customers access to accessories for the newest phone models as well as harder to find phones. Verizon Wireless and CarToys can expand their value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. to their customer base without having to increase inventory levels to carry these accessories. The Andrew Wireless Products group offers over 600 different accessory products for over 200 mobile phones. The product range includes accessory products for the newest model phones, such as the Audiovox PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). 1032, as well as older and hard-to-find items such as accessories for the Motorola Ultra Classic and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. P700 phones. The websites offers product lines including aftermarket and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and accessories in such categories as power, personalization, hands-free, data and connectivity, and mobile antenna products. The group has already successfully launched the shopping cart website programs for Verizon Wireless and CarToys. Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless service provider in the US, uses its Andrew-created site (Accessory Access) to offer customers products for phones that are not typically carried in Verizon Wireless retail locations. The site also enables Verizon Wireless customers to obtain accessories for older phone models that were previously carried at Verizon Wireless retail locations. CarToys uses its program, called the Wireless Accessory Warehouse, for similar purposes. For further information, contact Joe Burrell, Andrew Wireless Products E-Fulfillment Business Manager at 630-705-6628 or, send e-mail to joe.burrell@andrew.com. Link to the Verizon site at http://www.awpheadset.com/Verizon/manufacturer.asp. Link to the CarToys site at http://www.awpheadset.com/cartoys/. Andrew Corporation's wireless products division provides accessories, hands-free solutions, and mobile antennas for cellular, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , SMR (Specialized Mobile Radio) The communications services used by police, ambulances, taxicabs, trucks and other delivery vehicles. Throughout the U.S., approximately 3,000 independent operators are licensed by the FCC to offer this service, which provides always-on and paging devices. The Andrew wireless accessories range includes: portable hands-free kits and headsets; car adapters; mobile antennas; batteries and chargers; in-vehicle phone mounts and cradles; integrated vehicular cellular and GPS antennas; coaxial cable assemblies; office/home speakerphones; and Extensis(TM), the product that allows the user to connect their wireless service through their wireline. Founded in 1937, Andrew today is a billion-dollar, global corporation with more than 5,000 employees in 29 countries. Andrew is an S&P 500 company whose common stock trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (R) under the symbol:ANDW. For further information on Andrew products and services, including the text of this release, visit our website at http://www.andrew.com. Extensis is a trademark of Andrew Corporation. |
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