Telit Launches South American M2M Operations in Brazil

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innovative M2M modules in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in August 2008.

"Brazil is one of the fastest-growing wireless markets," said OoziCats, CEO Telit Communications PLC. "With the appointment ofexperienced leadership executives combined with the company'sinnovative technology, Telit will quickly become a major player inthe South American M2M industry."

The Telit Brazil executive leadership team will be led by formerSiemens Wireless Modules Customer Manager and Strategic MarketingConsultant Marcos Kinzkowski. As General Director of Telit Brazil,Kinzkowski will lead Telit's regional sales force. His expertknowledge of the Brazilian wireless market and established operatorand integrator relationships will play an integral role inintroducing Telit's M2M technology to the South Americanmarketplace. Additional Telit Brazil team members who will reportdirectly to Kinzkowski are listed below.

-- Ivan Braz - Serving as Regional Director of Manufacturing,Operations and Logistics, Braz recently served as Business UnitManager at Jabil Circuit Inc. where he was responsible fordirecting the company's mobile phone and telecommunicationequipment manufacturing units. At Jabil, Braz oversaw over 30million dollars in company assets and operations across Brazil, andat Telit, he will play a vital role in establishing the company'sSouth American operations with the same high quality standards asTelit worldwide.

-- Wireless expert Hamilton Marques da Silva joins Telit Brazil asHead Field Applications Engineer. Previously, he was Senior Productand Test Engineer at Siemens where he was responsible for networkinteroperability tests of GSM products, meeting specifications andensuring functionality and quality for Brazilian and other LatinAmerican network operators. Marques da Silva has held similarhigh-level engineering posts at VTC Vitelcom America, NortelNetworks do Brazil and Ericsson, and will serve as an expert tospeed Telit module's through network certifications in SouthAmerica.

-- Anderson Benino will serve as Regional Sales Manager for TelitBrazil, joining the company from his previous position as aCommercial Sales Manager at Siemens Wireless Modules. Benino hasheld executive sales posts at several major telecommunicationscompanies in Brazil, including Embratel and Terra Networking. Hisunderstanding of the market and valuable relationships coupled withhis expertise as a telecommunications engineer will assist inestablishing Telit's sales channels in Brazil.

-- Joining Telit Brazil from Siemens as Regional Finance Manager isRicardo Stefanato Buranello. At Siemens, Buranello was a FinanceCoordinator responsible for a 30 million dollar business unit.

-- And serving as Regional Sales Director for Telit Brazil is DiogoSae, an up-and-coming M2M communications expert. Sae was recruitedand participated in Siemens' Top Talent program in 2006; he thenserved as a Sales Engineer and Application Engineer prior tojoining Telit's team.

About Telit

Telit is a leading global wireless technology company. It develops,manufactures and markets GSM/GPRS, UMTS/HSDPA and CDMA/EVDOenterprise communication modules for machine-to-machine (M2M)applications which streamline business processes by enablingmachines, devices and vehicles to communicate via mobile networks.Telit's products are sold and deployed worldwide through offices inBrazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy,Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey and the USA. Telit Communications PLCis listed on the AIM (Ticker: TCM). For more information about thecompany, please visit www.telit.com.

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