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History
Locus Telecommunications began as many small companies do…with an idea.
Our goal, offer exactly what the public wants…innovative, easy-to-use products
at a cost-effective price. This is our story:


Locus Telecommunications, Inc.

 
2007
Breakout Latin Recording Artist Toby Love & Latin Recording Label Scarlito Records,
  partner with Locus to develop the company’s first Latin Music Celebrity endorsed
  Calling Card
   

2006
SDI & Locus join together to form created the co-branded Calling Card

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Locus launches new VoIP service (FonByNetSM) to its extensive portfolio
  of prepaid products


• Locus establishes a branch office in Seoul, South Korea to enhance the company’s
  expansion in Asia as well as further develop its current business in the U.S.


 O2 WirelessSM GSM airtime becomes available at over 47,000
   participating Western Union Agent locations nationwide

 Tedeschi’s Food Shops, Inc. offers O2 WirelessSM GSM prepaid wireless
   service at 210 convenience stores located throughout New England

 Locus expands its operations including a 10,000 square foot, 100-seat
   state-of-the-art call center as well as a new and expanded east coast
   Distribution Center


2005

Locus is the first MVNO to launch prepaid GSM to independent distributors
  nationwide. Four new GSM brands include – CallPlus® Wireless GSM,
  Locus® Mobile™ GSM, O2 WirelessSM GSM and POPSM

 Locus’ Calling Card division successfully launches GEO Asia and GEO Africa,
  which represent the best and most competitive alternatives for end-users looking
  to reach the Middle Eastern, Asian and African calling card segments.

2004
Locus launches two new national CDMA prepaid wireless brands –
  VIVASM Prepaid Wireless and Locus® PlatinumSM.

Locus introduces automated replenishment for Calling Cards and Wireless
  Airtime, allowing end-users to purchase and automatically load airtime over the
  phone (through a Customer Care IVR) without using a PIN.

| Locus announces ActFastSM a quick and fully automated way to activate
  Locus prepaid wireless phones.

 
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2003
Prepaid wireless business doubles and Locus introduces O2 WirelessSM a
  ground breaking 15 cent flat rate product with free international LD calling.

Calling card traffic reaches 2 billion minutes for the year, increasing our total
  switch capacity by 40% over 2002.

LOPEDS, Locus’ Point-Of-Sale system, is launched and sales transactions for
  the year reach over 66,000.

2002
Locus continues as one of the largest U.S. prepaid wireless resellers with over
  100,000 customers.

Introduces NO-PIN™ and EZ Balance Recharge™, innovative features that
  make Locus calling card services easier and less costly to use.

Local Access calling card service expands to Dallas, Houston, Phoenix,
  Portland, San Diego and San Francisco.

With annual calling card minutes well over the 1 billion minute mark, Locus
  expands its VoIP bandwidth for international call termination and installs its
  tenth network switch.

2001
Locus becomes one of the country's leading prepaid wireless resellers with
  over 70,000 customers.

Calling card Local Access service is added in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and
  Seattle. Monthly traffic approaches 80 million minutes and all switch capacity
  is upgraded to 160 T1s.

To meet the increasing demand for its services, Locus extends Customer Care
  24 hours a day, 7 days a week by installing an Interactive Voice Response system.

 
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2000
Locus is named by Inc. Magazine as one of the "fastest-growing New Jersey
  small companies".

Wireless presence expands into the top 30 U.S. metropolitan markets with the
  launch of CallPlus Nationwide PCS, a digital prepaid service.

For the year, Locus carries over 700 million long distance minutes, adds four
  more 160 T1 capacity switches, installs VoIP gateways for larger volume   
  international terminations and builds a Newark, NJ switching facility.

Locus enters the long distance carrier wholesale market, leveraging its scale and
  network management capabilities.

1999
With growing success, CallPlus Wireless® service launches in Los Angeles,
  Philadelphia, Boston, Washington D.C., Seattle, Baltimore and Las Vegas.

Locus introduces Local Access calling card service, providing customers with
  more economical rates. Annual calling card traffic doubles, exceeding 500 million
  minutes. A fifth switch is installed to handle rapidly increasing network minutes.

Locus enters into agreement with GeoCapital Partners for $10 million in equity
  financing to fuel continued growth.

1998
With year end monthly minute traffic at 30 million, Locus' annual minutes cross
  the 200 million minute threshold.

To handle continued growth, a Los Angeles switching facility is established and
  switch capacity is expanded.

Locus expands its product portfolio, introducing CallPlus Wireless® service in
  New York City.

 
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1997
Locus calling card traffic increases to 10 million minutes a month and network
  minutes for the year hit 106 million.

Switch capacity and the platform are upgraded to a National Applied Computer
  Technologies STX.

1996
Monthly calling card traffic exceeds the one million minute mark. Year end
  minutes of use are over 41 million.

Locus installs its New York switching facility and a prepaid platform, the Talking
  Debit International System.

1995
Locus successfully launches three calling card affinity marketing programs with
  Korean Air, Samsung Electronics, and Japan Tobacco.

With the introduction of the CallPlus® branded calling card, monthly traffic triples,
  reaching nearly five million minutes for the year.

1994
Locus introduces its first long distance calling card product, Smart Call, targeting   international and business travelers, and does $100,000 in business.

Monthly calling card traffic grows 4-fold and Locus installs its first long distance
  switch, the VX System.

1993
Locus Telecommunications begins selling the voice mail system.

 
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