Cirtek unit bags telco contract

Sep 16, 2020

Cirtek unit bags telco contract

The Philippine Star

Iris Gonzales

MANILA, Philippines — Cirtek Holdings Philippines Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary Quintel USA Inc., has bagged a new contract.

In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, Cirtek said Quintel signed a master purchase agreement with a telecommunications operator wherein Quintel would provide the telco’s needs to launch full commercial services on fresh spectrum for 5G services from 2021 and beyond.

Quintel will launch a new platform of small cell antenna products to complement its growing multi-port base station antenna portfolio designed and tailored specifically to its new customer’s next generation network.

This is to be built around existing frequencies as well as overlaying newly assigned 5G spectrum under a compact, feature-rich form factor with 4G and 3G backwards compatibility.

Michael Liu, Quintel president and Cirtek Holdings Philippines Corp EVP said Quintel’s 14-port canister covers all low-band spectrum and mid-band spectrum in North America, vital for delivering 5G services.

Cirtek Holdings Philippines is a listed entity in the local bourse and is the holding company of three wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Quintel, meanwhile, is a Silicon Valley-based technology company that designs, develops and delivers advanced high efficiency, high performance base station antenna solutions that help mobile operators increase efficiency, enhance quality of service, slash costs and accelerate returns.

It delivers innovative, high-quality, high-reliability, optimized, multi-port antenna solutions for the North American markets.

Another subsidiary, Cirtek Electronics Corp provides full turnkey solutions from package design and development, wafer probing, wafer back grinding, assembly, test development, final testing, warehousing and drop shipment for semiconductor devices used in communications, consumer electronics, computing, medical, industrial, automotive, aerospace, military and defense applications.

  • Aug 16, 2021

    Cirtek lists common shares sold via SRO

    Published by Business Mirror

    Cirtek Holdings Philippines Corp. on Monday listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) 249.44 million in common shares that carry a detachable warrant, which the company sold via a stock rights offering (SRO).

    The said shares were sold at P5.50 per share, or a total of P1.37 billion.

    Cirtek shares were last traded at P4.60 apiece.

    In his welcome message, PSE president and CEO Ramon S. Monzon cited the competitive environment of the technology solutions space given the rapid advancement in this field and expressed optimism over Cirtek’s plans for its subsidiaries...

    Read more
  • Oct 27, 2021

    Jerry Liu gets SEC’s nod to proceed with Cirtek’s preferred share offer

    Published by Bilyonaryo

    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the plan of Jerry Liu-led Cirtek Holdings Philippines Corp. to raise up to P3.5 billion from the sale of preferred shares.

    Cirtek is selling up to 70 million preferred shares at P50 per share.

    Net proceeds from the offering, amounting to P3.44 billion, will be used to refinance debt, pay down maturing obligations and support capital expenditure requirements.

    The offering will start on November 25 and will run until December 3, in time for the listing of the preferred shares on the Philippine Stock Exchange on Dec...

    Read more
  • Aug 16, 2021

    Cirtek lists P1.37-B rights shares with bonus warrants

    Published by Manila Bulletin

    Cirtek Holdings Philippines Corporation listed at the Philippine Stock Exchange its stock rights offering (SRO) shares worth P1.37 billion as well as the bonus detachable warrants that came with them.

    The SRO consisted of 249.44 million common shares sold at an offer price of 5.50 per Entitlement Right at the ratio of 1 Entitlement Right for every 1.68 common shares to eligible shareholders of record as of 7 July 2021.

    In addition to the rights shares, Cirtek issued 249.44 million Bonus Detachable Warrants free of charge. The Exercise Price for the Bonus Detachable...

    Read more