Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Silicon Valley tech firm to meet with governor

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:34:49 -0500

2003/01/27
Silicon Valley tech firm to meet with governor

Terrence Sing

Gov. Linda Lingle is scheduled to meet with executives from wireless tech
firm PacifiCall Tuesday morning to officially welcome the Palo Alto,
Calif.-based company to Hawaii.

In December, CEO Rob
Romero announced plans
to move the company to
Hawaii to take advantage
of the state's Act 221
high-tech tax law as well
as Hawaii's proximity to
Asia.

The company plans to
bundle its proprietary
software with cell-phone
distributors to facilitate
international phone calls.
Direct-dial features will eliminate the multiple steps used with calling cards.
Honolulu wireless phone retailer TCA Wireless will be the first nationwide
distributor to offer PacifiCall's service for Java-enabled Nextel, Sprint,
T-Mobile and AT&T cell phones.

PacifiCall will operate like an interexchange carrier, but without the expense
of network hardware and operations, according to Romero. It will therefore
offer lower calling rates, he said.

The company is targeting the $7 billion international mobile-calling-card
market, Romero said, and plans to have a staff of about 15 in Hawaii. The
company has not announced where it will set up office here.

“PacifiCall will enhance Hawai‘i’s
technology and business community,”
Gov. Lingle said. “I know that this is just
the start of more out-of-state ventures
taking a serious look at the benefits of
doing business here."
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2003/01/27/daily13.html

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