{"id":86427,"date":"1999-12-31T00:31:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/benq-to-enter-oz-phone-market\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:31:00","slug":"benq-to-enter-oz-phone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/benq-to-enter-oz-phone-market\/","title":{"rendered":"BenQ To Enter Oz Phone Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BenQ is set to enter the Australian mobile phone market with both the BenQ and Siemens brands.Fast growing technology group BenQ who recently aquired the Siemens mobile phone business is set to launch a major assault on the Australian phone market. The product range will include both BenQ and Siemens branded phones. To implement this move the company has hired four former executives of the Siemens they include, Christian Nyman who takes on the role of General Manager of BenQs Australian phone business. Ann-Maree Butler joins us as National Sales Manager and will play an integral role in developing relationships with Carriers, Distributors and Resellers.<BR>Chris Stellmach has been hired as National Channel Manager for Telstra. Chris will be responsible for BenQ&#8217;s partnership with Telstra.<BR>Adrian Cook has been appointed Customer Care Manager and will be responsible for the development and expansion of BenQs Mobile Phone service and after<BR>sales support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BenQ is set to enter the Australian mobile phone market with both the BenQ and Siemens brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BenQ To Enter Oz Phone Market - Smart Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/benq-to-enter-oz-phone-market\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BenQ To Enter Oz Phone Market - 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