Senior Nortel Executive Joins CSI Wireless

CSI Wireless Inc., a manufacturer and wireless and GPS products primarily for the telematics and precision agriculture markets, has recruited a senior Nortel Networks executive to lead CSI's rapidly expanding Wireless Business Unit. Former Nortel Vice-President Colin Maclellan has a wide range of product development and manufacturing experience in Canada and internationally.

CALGARY, March 13, 2002 - (TSE: CSY) - CSI Wireless Inc, a provider of advanced wireless and GPS technologies for the automotive, commercial and consumer markets, announced today that Colin Maclellan will join the company as Senior Vice President and General Manager of CSI's Wireless Business Unit, effective March 15. Mr. Maclellan will be responsible for all functional areas of CSI's Wireless Business Unit, and will also be a member of the CSI Wireless Executive Management Committee.

Mr. Maclellan comes to CSI Wireless from Nortel Networks, where he was employed for 16 years. Most recently, he held the position of Vice-President Wireless Internet Operations. He led a team of professionals in Canada, the U.S., France and Ireland that managed Nortel's new-product introduction teams and strategic manufacturing activities for wireless products globally.

Mr. Maclellan has held other executive positions at Nortel, including Vice President of Nortel's Calgary operations - responsible for 2,800 employees, and a multi-billion dollar revenue base that virtually doubled during his tenure.

He has strong wireless experience, having been responsible for Nortel's base station manufacturing activities for TDMA and CDMA technologies, having worked with the Nortel GSM team in France, and most recently, having led the operations activities for the introduction of UMTS. His Calgary team was also responsible for manufacturing Nortel's fixed wireless products, as well as its point-to-multipoint broadband wireless offering.

Mr. Maclellan developed a strong track record at Nortel in quality management and in rapidly increasing new product manufacturing to meet significant customer deployment needs. He has been trained in ISO, Six Sigma and Malcolm Baldrige quality elements, and was responsible for significant improvements in both in-process and in-service defect rates for several Nortel product lines. In bringing new products to market, Mr. Maclellan was responsible for the successful launch and volume ramp-up of several key wireless products including Nortel's CDMA Base Station products and the latest generations of Nortel's TDMA radio platforms.

He also has solid international experience, having successfully led Nortel's efforts to establish wireless manufacturing capabilities in its China joint-venture, and having led a successful Nortel drive to begin manufacturing
operations in Brazil.

"Colin is our ideal choice to help lead CSI Wireless to its next level of development and well into the future," said Stephen Verhoeff, CSI's President and CEO. "We enthusiastically welcome his experience in leading world-class technology operations, in developing and executing strategic plans with global perspectives, in bringing new products to market, in assembling and motivating highly professional teams of employees, and in implementing organizational processes and systems that significantly improve quality standards and overall performance."

About CSI Wireless
With offices in Calgary, Silicon Valley, and Phoenix, CSI Wireless provides innovative, cost-effective, wireless and GPS vehicle and asset management products for mobile and fixed applications in the automotive, commercial and consumer markets. Through the integration of GPS and wireless, CSI is actively pursuing several emerging high-growth markets including Fleet Management, Asset Tracking, Telematics and Mobile Computing applications. The Company owns several patents and intellectual property relating to wireless networks and GPS technologies. CSI Wireless has licensed its cellular technology to GPS, cellular handset, and chipset manufacturers. The company'scommon shares trade on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "CSY", with approximately 18.4 million outstanding. Please visit the CSI Web site at www.csi-wireless.com

For further information:

Stephen Verhoeff President & CEO, CSI Wireless Inc., 403-259-3311, sverhoeff@csi-wireless.com
Cory Pala, Investor Relations, E-vestor Communications Inc., 416-657-2400, cpala@e-vestorcom.com
Jeff Adams, Public Relations Manager, CSI Wireless Inc., 403-259-3311/615-8747 (cell), jadams@csi-wireless.com