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Antennas America Names Former Ericsson Director of Business Development as Vice President, Business Development.


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WHEAT RIDGE Wheat Ridge, city (1990 pop. 29,419), Jefferson co., N central Colo., a suburb of Denver; inc. 1969. Chiefly residential, Wheat Ridge is the site of an annual carnation festival. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

Antennas America, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

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: ANTM ANTM America`s Next Top Model (TV show) ) has named Burton Calloway, the former Director of Business Development for Ericsson as Vice President, Business Development for Antennas America.

While at Ericsson, from 1995-1998 Mr. Calloway was Director of Sales of Ericsson's Enterprise Wireless Networks and from 1998-1999 was Director of Business Development. As Director of Sales Mr. Calloway conceived the wireless strategy of attacking vertical markets in finance, utilities, manufacturing and healthcare. He also established joint marketing agreements with many leading wireless companies to provide wireless technology to its customers. As Director of Business Development, Mr. Calloway directed strategic marketing and initiated channel activities for the new generation of wireless systems including wireless IP server, WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point.

(2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages.
 (wireless application protocol), wireless local area networks, wireless voice over internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP.

(networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol.
, and GSM on the Net.

"The addition of Mr. Calloway to our staff will expedite the execution of our strategy to become a total wireless solutions company," stated Randall P. Marx, Chief Executive Officer of Antennas America, Inc. His leadership skills, combined with his wireless experience and knowledge, will be a tremendous resource as we transition the Company," he added.

As previously announced, Antennas America intends to expand beyond its existing antenna business to become a total wireless solutions company. On May 30, 2000, as part of this strategy, Antennas America announced the acquisition of Winncom Technologies, Inc., a turnkey wireless solutions company. The fundamental strategy is to grow from within as well as to acquire certain wireless businesses to increase the number and type of wireless products offered. The Company intends to use Mr. Calloway's vast experience in wireless to develop additional wireless systems for MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service or Microwave Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 2.2-2.4 GHz range. , 3G, wireless internet and Bluetooth.

From 1984 to 1992, Mr. Calloway was a Regional Sales Manager sales manager ngerente m/f de ventas

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 for Ericsson covering all states west of the Mississippi. He also was Vice President of Sales for Cintech Telemanagement from 1992-1994 and was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Teletron Inc. from August 1999 through March 2000. Mr. Calloway received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (flagship campus)
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • University of Illinois at Springfield
  • University of Illinois system
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 in Chicago in 1970. Honors and Awards include Ericsson Quality Excellence Award, Ericsson Club 100 Sales Award and 1997 Sales Person of the Year.

Antennas America, Inc. is a diversified wireless company that designs, develops and manufactures unique antenna and other wireless solutions for the rapidly expanding telecommunications industry at its 27,600 square foot facility leased in Wheat Ridge, Colorado The City of Wheat Ridge is a Home Rule Municipality located in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Wheat Ridge is a western suburb of Denver. The Wheat Ridge Municipal Center is 5 miles (8 km) . The Company also provides custom antenna designs and manufacturing for Original Equipment Manufacturers (O.E.M.) and other emerging wireless communications wireless communications

System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data.
 markets. For more information about the Company and its products, please visit our web site at www.antennas.com.

This is not a solicitation to buy or sell securities and does not purport to be an analysis of the Company's financial position.

This Release contains forward looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements and assumptions upon which forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, they can give no assurances that such expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct. For Antennas America, see Antennas America's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for additional statements concerning important factors, such as demand for products, manufacturing costs and competition, that could cause actual results to differ materially from Antennas America's expectations.
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