Cequint Names Weller President.Former RIM Executive Joins Highly Experienced Management Team SEATTLE -- Scott Weller has been named president of Cequint, Inc., the leading developer of Caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. technology for wireless phones. Weller most recently spent more than five years at Research in Motion, managing RIM's commercial relationship and then national retail and channel sales with AT&T, Blackberry's largest carrier sales partner. Prior to that, Weller was with Sony/Qualcomm launching CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. technology in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. before becoming a founding member of Wireless Knowledge, a Qualcomm/Microsoft joint venture that developed enterprise wireless services. Weller began his career in the industry managing marketing for Centel Cellular's mid-Atlantic region before the company was acquired by Sprint. "Scott brings to the table smarts, savvy and years of experience working the frontlines of the wireless industry; he could be working anywhere he wants," said Cequint CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Rick Hennessey. "So it says a lot that Scott chose to join Cequint. We're now working with every major 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 to enable City ID for our carrier partners and attracting top-tier talent from both the wireless and caller ID industries. His decision to come on board not only validates our unique business model - it will speed our carrier and manufacturer efforts." Cequint is the creator of City ID[TM], a patented embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. call feature that helps identify unknown callers by displaying the city and state assigned to virtually any phone number issued in North America. Alltel Wireless, the first U.S. carrier to license City ID[TM], has embedded the application on its new LG AX275 and AX380 handsets and will make City ID[TM] available on additional Alltel phones as they are introduced. "Sometimes the simplest ideas add the most value to the greatest potential market. There's no such thing as a learning curve for City ID - it is useful out-of-the-box to 100 percent of mobile subscribers, and carriers can launch this enhanced Caller ID feature without any additional capital expense," Weller said. "It's really unique to be able to offer operators an entirely new category of proven feature revenue without requiring any new infrastructure. Call screening products have earned landline Land based. Refers to standard telephone and data communications systems that use in-ground and telephone pole cables in contrast to wireless cellular and satellite services. carriers hundreds of millions in revenue - now it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for wireless." ABOUT CEQUINT, INC. Founded in 2005 by executives that helped pioneer call screening technologies, Seattle-based Cequint is a privately funded company that enjoys a comprehensive portfolio of patented Caller ID and call screening solutions. For more information on the company, its products or technology, please visit www.cequint.com. |
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