Wireless Zone was recently featured in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead

National wireless retailer expanding to ND
By: Craig McEwen and Tracy Frank, INFORUM


Wireless Zone, a national wireless retail franchiser, is looking to expand into North Dakota.

The Connecticut-based company was founded in 1988 as “The Car Phone Store.” It offers Verizon Wireless products and services.

Wireless Zone is a division of Automotive Technologies Inc. Every Wireless Zone store is independently owned and operated. In 2009, the company, which has more than 400 franchises, awarded more than 100 new franchise locations.

Kevin Downs, Wireless Zone’s director of marketing, said the company is seeing a tremendous amount of growth in people looking to get into business franchising. (Read More)

Wireless Zone was recently featured on Toledo on the Move

Text-disabling application for phones

By Dan Armstrong Monday, March 01, 2010 at 1:29 p.m.

It's become quite an issue recently. Several states and even some Michigan communities have banned texting while driving.

Right now, there's a new cell phone application that prevents teens from texting while driving.

It's called Textecution, and it's meant to give parents more control over their teens cell phone habits.

Christie Lauman, Verizon sales representative from Frankenmuth, says "There's 46% of teens from 16 to 17 years old that admit to texting and driving. So there's obviously a ton that don't admit it."

NBC25 took Textecution out for a spin. GPS technology tracks the speed of the phone, and once a vehicle reaches 10 mile an hour, a message pops up saying "You are moving too fast to use this application." (Read More)

Wireless Zone was recently featured in the MetroWest Daily News

Wireless Zone franchise opens in Marlborough

By Bob Tremblay/Daily News staff
The MetroWest Daily News
Posted Mar 01, 2010 @ 12:28 AM
MARLBOROUGH —

In the market for a cell phone?

While you could go shopping for this item at a generic cell phone store, it’s unlikely that establishment will be owner-operated and run by an individual with years of wireless experience.

In other words, that store is unlikely to be the Wireless Zone, a retailer of Verizon Wireless products and services. Founded in 1988 as The Car Phone Store, the Wireless Zone is now the largest wireless retail franchiser in the United States. Though the economy hasn’t exactly been receptive to business owners, Wireless Zone signed and found financing for nearly 100 franchisees last year.

One of those franchisees is Ray Leung, who opened a Wireless Zone store in the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough in November. The opening increases Leung’s number of Wireless Zone locations to seven. The others are in Hyannis, Middleborough, North Attleboro, Burlington, Salem, N.H., and Portsmouth, R.I. (Read More)

Wireless Zone was recently featured on WZZM 13

Cell-phone application disables texting and internet while driving

By: Sarah Sell Jessica Puchala

HOLLAND, Mich. (WZZM)- If your are concerned about your teenager texting and driving, a new cell-phone application could be the answer. It prevents drivers from texting and using the internet when a driver is going more than 10-miles an hour.

The application is called Textecution. Right now, it can be downloaded onto android devices only. Matt Bartlett, Manager of Wireless Zone in Holland says right now, his store is offering it for free. "It blocks texting on a phone if the GPS tracks it for going more than 10-miles an hour or faster."

Research shows that your chance of having an accident increases significantly when texting and driving. On January 12th, it turned deadly for 18 year old Eric Helm. He was a student at Jenison. Investigators say he was texting his girlfriend when he crossed the center line and hit a pickup truck. (Read More)

Wireless Zone was recently featured on TMCNet.com

Textecution Disables Texting, Email and Web Browsing While Driving

By: Tom Keating

Wireless Zone is now offering its customers a free application called Textecution which locks a phones texting capabilities when the user is behind the wheel. The application is targeted towards parents who are concerned about their teen's texting while driving habits. It leverages GPS to detect if you are traveling more than 10mph and then it disables texting, as well as email and web browsing. (Read More)

Wireless Zone was recently featured on WABI

New Cell Phone Feature Stops Teens from Texting While Driving

by Meghan Hayward · Feb 09th 2010 · See more Local News

A new cell phone feature is putting the brakes on texting for teenagers while driving.

Textecution uses the Android phone and an onboard GPS to know how fast the phone is moving.

If it's traveling over ten miles per hour, the phone's texting, e-mail and web browsing functions are disabled.

Right now the service can be added for free at the Wireless Zone in Newport, Skowhegan, and two locations in Bangor, including the Bangor Mall. (Read More)

Wireless Zone was recently featured in the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus

Program puts brakes on texting at wheel

By Christopher Behnan • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • February 8, 2010

Wireless Zone in Livingston County has taken the option of texting while driving out of the hands of teens and into the sky.

The company is promoting Textecution, a Global Positioning System program that blocks texting functions on cell phones when vehicles exceed 10 mph.

If that happens, the GPS causes a pop-up screen to appear on phones to alert drivers, and all texting functions are disabled.

"It's pretty much going to say, 'Slow down if you want to use this,' in a nutshell," said Phil Swartz, general manager of Wireless Zone in Hartland Township and Genoa Township. (Read More)