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Comarco Wireless Expands International Presence With New Offices In Brazil And China
COMARCO (NASDAQ: CMRO) Wireless Test Solutions has appointed Milton Yoshimura and Johnson Li to run its new offices in Brazil and China.
IRVINE, CA (PRWEB) May 26, 2004 -- Brazil and China are two of the world's fastest growing wireless economies. COMARCO provides wireless carriers with equipment for optimizing QoS. COMARCO (NASDAQ: CMRO) Wireless Test Solutions has appointed Milton Yoshimura and Johnson Li to run its new offices in Brazil and China. Yoshimura and Li report to Malcolm Levy, vice president of sales at COMARCO. These new offices provide wireless carriers with equipment that is used to optimize the quality of service (QoS) the carriers provide to their customers.
"The creation of these offices is an important part of COMARCO's business strategy and a demonstration of the importance that the company attaches to employing sales and support personnel who are local to the customer," notes Greg Maton, senior vice president of COMARCO. "As our business develops throughout the World, we will continue to appoint experts locally, such as Yoshimura and Li, to extend the best possible service and support to our customers. Our offices in these countries will be fully equipped with technical support personnel, equipment and spares inventory, as expected by our customers."
Milton Yoshimura has nearly 30 years of telecom engineering and management experience in Latin America. He joins COMARCO from TWS where he was COO and general manager. He has also held engineering management positions in Brazil with such companies as Vesper, LCC, NEXTEL, Mobitel, Sid Telecom and HSBC. He holds a Telecom Engineering degree from Universidade de Sao Paulo.
Johnson Li has more than 20 years of engineering, marketing and management experience, mostly in the wireless sector. He joins COMARCO from ASCOM Asia-Pacific Ltd. where he was wireless product marketing director and chief company representative in China. Prior to ASCOM he served as product line and marketing manager for the Wireless Communications Division of Conexant Systems, Inc. Earlier positions were with Wavetek, Rohde & Schwarz and the Chinese Academy of Space Technology. He holds a BEE degree from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication.
About COMARCO
Based in Irvine, Calif., Comarco is a leading provider of wireless test solutions for field test applications, ChargeSource® universal mobile power products and wireless emergency call box systems. Comarco's industry-leading Seven.Five wireless test system for field test applications allows cellular telephone system operators to improve the quality of their cellular phone service through voice, video and data benchmarking and system optimization using advanced QoS algorithms and a unique multi-technology RF scanner. Seven.Five's open architecture supports both current cellular operating system technologies and the new 3G systems being implemented in international markets.
Based on reported year-to-date sales data, ChargeSource is the largest selling line of products able to recharge and power a variety of mobile devices, including laptop computers, cellular telephones, digital cameras, PDAs and other handheld devices, through a single power source.
In addition, Comarco's call box systems are in place on most major highway systems throughout the United States and are used by motorists to contact local authorities for rapid assistance. More information about Comarco's product lines can be found at www.comarco.com and www.chargesource.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release may contain forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended to date. These forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. A number of important factors could cause our results to differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements, including, among others, the impact of perceived or actual weakening of economic conditions on customers' and prospective customers' adoption of new wireless communications technologies, and, therefore, spending on our products and services; risks related to market acceptance of our products and our ability to meet contractual and technical product performance commitments with our customers; activities by us and others regarding protection of intellectual property; and competitors' release of competitive products and other actions. Further information on potential factors that could affect our financial results are included in risks detailed from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including without limitation our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2003 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2003.
Corporate Information
Comarco Wireless Test Solutions is located at 2 Cromwell, Irvine, CA 92618-1816. The company can be found on the Web at www.comarco.com.
Editorial Contacts
COMARCO Wireless Test Solutions
Malcolm Levy
949/599-7587
mlevy@comarco.com
KPR, Inc.
David Kaye or Barbara Evans
818/368-8212
dave@kprinc.com or barbara@kprinc.com
Company Contacts:
Tom Franza
President & CEO
COMARCO, Inc.
(949) 599-7440
tfranza@comarco.com
Dan Lutz
Vice President & CFO
COMARCO, Inc.
(949) 599-7556
dlutz@comarco.com
Investor Contact:
Doug Sherk
Founder & CEO
EVC Group
(415) 659-2285
dsherk@evcgroup.com
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