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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.
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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 |
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2006
• SDI & Locus join together to form created
the co-branded Calling Card
• 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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Locus Telecommunications, Inc. |
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