PrimeHoldings.com and Briza Technologies Sign Agreement With Tele Celular Sul Participacoes S.A. to Use Briza Technologies' Shor
March 16 2004 - 11:59AM
PR Newswire (US)
PrimeHoldings.com and Briza Technologies Sign Agreement With Tele
Celular Sul Participacoes S.A. to Use Briza Technologies' Short
Message Servicing (SMS) Solutions to Recharge Prepaid Mobile
Telephones SALT LAKE CITY, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/--
PrimeHoldings.com, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: PRIM.PK) , a diversified
holding company with early-mover initiatives in the
telecommunications, wireless auction and proprietary restaurant and
hospitality software industries, today announced that Briza
Technologies, Inc., which is being acquired by PrimeHoldings.com,
has signed an agreement with Tele Celular Sul Participacoes S.A. to
use Briza's SMS payment solutions to recharge pre-paid mobile
telephones in Brazil. Briza Technologies, a Hillsborough, NJ based
corporation whose primary business is the designing, manufacturing
and marketing of wireless credit card payment solutions and
Internet security devices, is being acquired by PrimeHoldings.com,
Inc. Tele Celular Sul Participacoes S.A., a Brazilian digital
cellular telephone company (NYSE:TSU), has a market cap of $491.23
million and had gross revenues of $347.52 million in 2003. "The
signing of this definitive agreement with Tele Celular Sul to
recharge pre-paid mobile telephones in Brazil is a major step for
Briza. By the terms of the agreement, Briza will build its own
distribution channels, and will receive commissions on each
cellular telephone recharge and will also receive commissions for
recharges sold within Tele Celular Sul's existing distribution
network using our solutions," said Ivan Silva, Briza's President
and CEO. "This means that we can roll out Briza's technology and
generate immediate revenues, with a longer term view to the larger
potential of Brazil's 47 million prepaid cellular telephone
customers," said Thomas Aliprandi, PrimeHoldings.Com's CEO. "Once
Briza's SMS payments solution technology is fully implemented and
functioning at its highest qualitative capacity with Tele Celular
Sul, our platform will have the capacity to handle other
multi-dimensional payments solutions for a diverse variety of
clients, including banks, nationwide in Brazil and across all of
Latin America," said Silva. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private
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PrimeHoldings.com, Inc. CONTACT: Tom Aliprandi of
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