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Pantech & Curitel Tweaks U.S. Strategy, Lands Contract

Dec 21, 2004, 2:45 PM by (staff)

Pantech & Curitel yesterday announced a one-year contract to export a record 10 million phones, worth $1.6 billion, to UTStarcom Personal Communications (formerly Audiovox Communications). Previously, Curitel sold phones in the U.S. market under the Audiovox brand. Now future Curitel phones will be sold under the Pantech brand in the U.S. The new phones, 35% of which are planned to be high-end models, will be distributed to 12 carriers in North America, including Verizon and Sprint. The company also plans to sell an additional 2 million phones directly in the U.S. through subsidiary P&C Communications. (corrected 12/23)

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Rich Brome

Dec 23, 2004, 12:41 PM

Correction re: Audiovox brand

FYI, I just made a small correction.

Originally, I said "With [the Audiovox] brand no longer available..." in reference to future Curitel phones.

It turns out that UTStarcom actually has a five-year license to the Audiovox brand, so it is still available. They are choosing to use the Pantech brand for other reasons.

Corpo Rat

Dec 21, 2004, 4:31 PM

Ugh. WHY?!?

I HATED the Curitel-built Audiovox phones. Nothing but junk. The 8600 especially. Let Sprint have them.

schnozejt

I've only had it for almost a year and its in really good shape given i've dropped it a dozen or more times (not the puni drops onto thick carpet but drops onto concrete).

The only thing I don't like is the speakerphone--it's a little on the weak s...
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muchdrama

Corpo Rat said:
I HATED the Curitel-built Audiovox phones. Nothing but junk. The 8600 especially. Let Sprint have them.

I've never met a Curitel phone that wasn't built very, very poorly. Great...flooding the market wit...
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