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Title: BCI Communications, Inc.


1
At BCI, We Make WIRELESS WORK!
2
What if there was no wireless industry?
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • How many people carry a
  • Cell Phone
  • PDA
  • Text Message Device
  • Iphone
  • Aircard
  • There must always be a network for devices to
    work
  • Who makes the network function?
  • We do! BCI Communications, Inc.
  • Nearly 750 million of network build outs since
    inception

3
How did my entry in Wireless Happen?
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • Answered an ad in 1985 while working in
    Commercial Real Estate
  • The night before, I had watched my years
    commission almost burn down
  • Cellular was in its infancy in 1985
  • Lets look at the chart of subscribers
  • Welcome to Drive Phone
  • Most exciting business time of my career
  • Being there at the start of the new Industry
  • Judge Green and the Bell System
  • ATT walks away

4
Your Trusted Partner TM
Annualized Wireless Industry Survey Results
December 1985 to December 2008
Materials May not be reproduced or photocopied in
any form without written permission from
CTIA2009 CTIA-The Wireless Association Permissi
on for use obtained by Berliner Comm
5
Wireless Quick Facts from CTIA (Cellular
Telephone Industry Association)
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  • KThousand             MMillion               
    BBillion                 TTrillion
  • Worldwide, Nearly 3 Billion Subscribers
  • Materials May not be reproduced or photocopied in
    any form without written permission from
    CTIA2009 CTIA-The Wireless Association
  • Permission for use obtained by Berliner Comm

6
Began my career in selling Cellular Phones
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • Early stages, there were No Rules
  • No advertising
  • No Marketing
  • No Spokespeople
  • But there was Coop Advertising
  • Began to develop the techniques that helped make
    BCI successful
  • Few events from the history of developing a
    marketing plan from scratch
  • Giants football player
  • Gary Carter
  • Rocky Aoki
  • Mickey Mantle Lunch

7
The Career Path towards BCI
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • From Drive Phone to BCI was a very uncertain path
  • Felt that carriers would take over the selling
    function so I moved into the network side of the
    industry
  • Some group of companies would have to build the
    network
  • Cell phone activations grew as car phones
    morphed into portable handheld phones

8
The Classic Startup Story
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • Kitchen table to Public company
  • Today
  • 400 Employees
  • 20 Office Locations
  • Last Fiscal Years Revenue Over 120mm
  • Crucial Decision good and bad decisions, were
    all regarding people
  • Hiring the Right ones
  • Losing the Wrong ones
  • Keeping the Best ones
  • 002 Still here today

9
The Classic Startup Story
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10
Continued
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  • BCI was formed from a bad partnering situation
    and a financial adviser who tried to rip me off
    for 20k
  • That same person helped me raise the crucial
    Angel Money that assured our survival
  • Began BCI as a real estate arm of what became
    T-Mobile
  • We started by acquiring billboard locations for
    cell sites

11
Your Trusted Partner TM
2009 will not exceed 2008 because of the
changeover to IP based networks.
12
Were Site Acquisition and ConstructionAnd so
much more
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  • Site Acquisition Zoning
  • Construction Services
  • In-Building DAS Systems
  • Warehousing Logistics
  • Specialty Communication Services
  • Green Energy Group

Staffing Services Technical Services Tower
Upgrades Site Maintenance RF Engineering Projec
t Management
13
Simply Put
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • At BCI, we make Wireless Work!

14
Client Relationships
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  • Wireless Carriers
  • Tower Companies
  • OEMs
  • Municipalities
  • Other

15
Nationwide Offices
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2 offices
16
We Built Up To This Sizeby Organic Growth andby
Making 7 Acquisitions
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  • Major player in Texas (Digitcom)
  • Large firm that fell on hard times in the West
    (Radian)
  • (LA, Vegas, San Fran, Phoenix, Seattle)
  • Assorted small firms

17
Chronology of Capital Formation
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • Zero dollars to Begin the Business - 1995
  • Growth from Profits - 1996
  • Angel Money - 1997
  • SBA Mezzanine round - 1998
  • Real Venture Capital/Greenhill Capital - 1999 -
    2000
  • Reverse into Public shell - in 2005
  • PIPE (Private Investment in Public
    Enterprise) - 2007
  • Converted to Equity - 2008
  • Why give away part of my holdings each time?

18
How do we do it?
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  • Hire and Retain the best people
  • Use equity, Not debt
  • Created the BCI Brand
  • Well known in the wireless industry
  • Long term industry reputation for great customer
    service

19
The Four Power Keys to BCI Success
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  • Financial Strength
  • Top Industry Staff - BCI Bucks Program
  • Self-Performing model 14 years experience
  • Mentality of dedicated partnering with Customers
    and Subs
  • On-line payables system
  • Subcontractor Bill of Rights
  • Extranet

20
BCI Today
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • Proxy for updating the United States
    communications infrastructure
  • Derivative story of
  • Wireless Carriers
  • Broadband Operators
  • Cable Companies
  • Satellite Providers
  • Etc.
  • Well run - Well capitalized company
  • Wimax and LTE are here
  • Today, it is finally rewarding to build things
    again

21
Entrepreneurial Lessons Learned
Your Trusted Partner TM
  • Check everything.
  • As Ronald Reagan once said, Trust With
    Verification

22
Giving back to the Community
Your Trusted Partner TM
23
At BCI, We Make WIRELESS WORK!
www.bcisites.com OTC BBBERL
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