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| 2008 |
- O2 Wireless & Magicpins
Forge New Partnership
- O2 Wireless partners
with Strauss Auto to distribute service in Strauss'
- 90 Regional locations
- O2 Wireless is
the first US MVNO to debut alcatel mobile phones
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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 the "Hot Dog" 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 Wireless
GSM airtime becomes available at over 47,000 participating
Western Union Agent locations nationwide
- Tedeschi’s Food Shops, Inc. offers
O2 Wireless
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
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| 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, O2SM Wireless
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.
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| 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 ActFast SM 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 Wireless
GSM 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 1993 |
- Locus Telecommunications begins selling
the voice mail system.
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