opti industry telecommunications wireless technology founded leuven belgium 1986 headquarters leuven belgium key people jan callewaert founder in 1986 & current ceo products data cards embedded wireless modules mobile connectivity devices software revenue 57.7 million 2010 1 net income 61.0 million 2010 number of employees 240 as of 2010 1 website www.option.com option n.v. is a publicly quoted technology company headquartered in leuven belgium . option specializes in the design development production and commercialization of broadband wireless technology devices . option s mission statement is to provide anywhere anytime easy access to information . option has been awarded ernst & young s company of the year award for 2005 . 2 contents 1 products 2 financials 3 customers 4 references and footnotes 5 external links products edit option pc card gt 3g quad an orange branded globetrotter fusion pc card currently the product line up consists of connect cards for example the globetrotter hsdpa 7.2 ready data card embedded wireless modules for laptops and or smartphones fixed mobile devices for example a usb stick providing wireless broadband access via hspa and umts networks and software . remarkable is the globetrotter fusion card which was the first 3 to integrate hsdpa umts edge wi fi technologies on a single data card . option is the worldwide market leader in the wireless broadband niche other market contestants are either significantly smaller or don t consider wireless broadband a core business for example nec corporation and can benefit from high margins across the whole product range . intentions from a new intel nokia partnership which would deteriorate option s market share were short lived and quickly dropped 4 5 6 7 proving option s leadership as well as high entry to market barriers even for large corporations . most production took place at jabil in bergamo italy while celestica in kladno czech republic provides additional capacity . nowadays all manufacturing of devices is done in wuxi china . the products are marked as having been designed in leuven but actually are refurbished and labelled in ireland . financials edit initial market panic stemming from the announced intel nokia deal did cause option s share price to drop significantly in 2006 losing more than 23 % in one day on september 28 . 6 the stock has rebounded somewhat since . revenue growth for 2006 remained solid however reaching nearly 280 million self stated projected revenues for 2007 are anywhere from 355 to 375 million . jan callewaert the company s founder and ceo is the largest single shareholder controlling a 17.10 percent stake currently valued at nearly 90 million . the remaining shares 82.9 % enjoy free float status on the euronext brussels exchange . smaller stakes under 5 percent are held by kbc bank and ubs ag well known financial institutions . customers edit option s customer base has grown substantially every year current customers are sharp corporation wataniya telecom fujitsu siemens t mobile cingular wireless now at & t vodafone orange airtel telstra acer uniwill samsung electronics and telenor to name but a few . references and footnotes edit a b option annual report 2010 press communication ernst & young monday 13 february 2006 prnewswire nokia intel plan to collaborate on wireless technology wimax intel nokia deal gets mixed reactions a b nokia intel 3g deal threatens wireless modem makers cite error invalid ref tag ; name six defined multiple times with different content see the help page . dutch press coverage at 3gsm barcelona quoting an intel spokesman external links edit official website usage of a globetrotter fusion card under debian dovado routers supporting option usb modems external antennas for option s usb and pc card modems retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title option n.v. & oldid 734791764 categories companies of belgiumtelecommunications companies of belgiumcompanies established in 1986telecommunications equipment vendorscompanies listed on the euronext exchanges1986 establishments in belgiumhidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference namesofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 16 august 2016 at 19 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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