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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 23, 2004 -- Yesil delved into telecommunications initially as a cost-cutting sideline to his contact lens business, Lens Express, which he grew from his Fort Lauderdale apartment into an operation that shipped some 80,000 pairs of lenses a day.



''We had 200 telemarketers on the phones,'' he recalled. ``Our phone bill was like $250,000 a month.''



So Yesil licensed a phone network and then resold the lines to Lens Express and the companies of some of his friends.

He then noticed that customers were asking for prepaid calling cards and figured out a way to enter that market.



''We had such a demand that we started building our own switching network across the country,'' he said.



In 1996, he sold Lens Express for $40 million.



The next year he formed Radiant as a telecommunications provider. By 2001, the company was selling $172 million worth of calling-card services to private-label retailers and phone companies. The company's 79 North American switching stations currently handle some 850 million minutes of phone card traffic a month.

Yesil now plans to spin off the phone card business but keep the new company as a customer of Ntera's networks.

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