Brightstar, a leader in wireless distribution and supply chain
management , will provide logistics and supply chain expertise.

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MINNEAPOLIS----PepsiAmericas, Inc. Keiser said. Since 2001, Mr. Pohlad, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer."
PepsiAmericas is the second-largest Pepsi bottler with operations
in 19 states, Central Europe including Poland, Hungary, the Czech
Republic, and Republic of Slovakia , and the Caribbean including,
Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago .

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The group is in
discussions with the Brazilian government to be a manufacturing center for the
$100 laptop. Michael Bove, Jr .com/reports/c16448

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Senior Manager
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press@researchandmarkets .

The Caribbean Literature category focuses on literature by and about the people of the Caribbean region .

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(NYSE:PAS) announced today that Mike Durkin will assume the position
of executive vice president of U. "He's an exceptional choice for this
position.
One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC, is an organization dedicated to enhancing
worldwide primary and secondary education through the implementation and
delivery of a $100 laptop.

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Pei building, the Media Lab is located on the MIT campus in Cambridge ,
Massachusetts. is a leading distributor and provider of value added
supply chain services to the wireless telecom industry, and also designs and
manufacturers products under licensing agreements with leading manufacturers. Kitts and Nevis
Bermuda
Guadeloupe
St.

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Always a hotbed of innovative artistic expression, the Media
Lab is increasing technologies and concepts that foster creativity-empowering
people of all ages, from all walks of life, in all societies, to design and
invent new possibilities for them and the communities around them.
Paraguay
Bahamas
Ecuador
Peru
Barbados
El Salvador
Puerto Rico
Belize
Grenada
St.researchandmarkets.

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"We are pleased to be able
to participate in such a revolutionary initiative and believe it will
literally transform the way that people learn and access information .

The group and its corporate partners are targeting late 2006 for the first
distribution of $100 laptops.

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For more information, visit http://www.com .
(Logo: http://www. The
first part of this report will provide you with an outlook of the
liberalisation status of each of the region's 42 countries also identifying
crucial information such as VoIP liberalisation.

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Durkin has held a
number of sales and general management roles with PepsiCo, Pepsi
Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas , overseeing customer strategy and
marketplace execution. PepsiAmericas manufactures, distributes
and markets a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola, and other national and
regional brands.media.

About One Laptop Per Child
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a Delaware-based, non-profit organization
created by faculty members from the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and
distribute laptops that are sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in
the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education. The laptops will
be provided to governments at cost and issued to children by schools on a
basis of one laptop per child.
OLPC is based on "constructionist " theories of learning pioneered by
Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, as well as the principles expressed in
Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital.newscom.

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S.
He will report to PepsiAmericas' President and Chief Operating Officer
Ken Keiser and lead the development and execution of the company's
domestic sales and marketing strategy.
For more information on PepsiAmericas, please visit our Web site
at www."
Negroponte continued, "This selected group of organizations has shown
their commitment and leadership in closing the digital divide in emerging
countries, focusing on providing access to life-altering technology and
information to children across the globe. The laptop project, through OLPC, is
headed by an elite team of scientific, educational theorists with backgrounds
in both academia and industry.

About Brightstar
Brightstar Corp.

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Mr. Durkin will continue in his role as chief financial officer
until March 21, the effective date of his new appointment. (NYSE:PEP) beneficially owns a 41
percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. The following telecom
sectors are covered:

- Fixed Local
- Fixed National
- Fixed International
- Mobile
- Data
- Internet
- VoIP

The second section of the report will provide you with an extensive list
of over 330 of the region's main fixed, mobile and Internet players with links
to their respective web site, this on a country per country basis.

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PepsiAmericas Names Mike Durkin Executive Vice President of U.S. Business

Durkin, 45, replaces Jim Nolan, who resigned his post last month.
Mr. Durkin has held the top
financial spot, overseeing the global financial, strategic, technology
and investor relations functions. They include:

-- Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, a
recognized authority on information technology and author of Being
Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages;
-- Seymour Papert, professor emeritus at the MIT Media Lab, who is an
early pioneer of artificial intelligence and one of the world's
leading theorists on child learning;
-- Alan Kay, creator of the Smalltalk language and credited as the
"father of personal computing," his pioneering work in computers has
often been influenced by his interest in children and education;
-- Joseph Jacobson , a physicist and professor at the MIT Media Lab, as
well as inventor of low cost "electronic ink" displays which is one of
the display technologies being considered for the $100 laptop;
-- Mary Lou Jepsen, a leader in display technology and former head of
technology in Intel's display division;
-- V.

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The company
expects to announce his successor next week. These machines will be rugged, Linux-based,
and so energy efficient that hand-cranking alone will generate sufficient
power for operation.

Countries Mentioned:

Antigua and Barbuda
Dominica
Panama
Argentina
Dominican Rep. Lucia
Bolivia
Guatemala
St.

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"Mike has been actively involved with all aspects of our
business," said Robert C.

He has
consistently articulated our vision for growth and distinguished our
performance both internally and externally.pepsiamericas. The pricing goal is to start at $100 and then steadily
decrease.com /reports/c16448 ) has announced the addition
of Telecom market Liberalisation Status and Key Players - Americas to their
offering. Links to
each of the regulators is provided.

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Brightstar Corp . Mesh networking will give many machines Internet access
from one connection.brightstarcorp.

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PepsiCo , Inc. Housed in an award-winning
I. Vincent and the Grenadines
Brazil
Guyana
Suriname
Canada
Haiti
Trinidad
Tobago
Cayman Island
Honduras
Turk and Caicos
Chile
Jamaica
United States
Colombia
Martinique
Uruguay
Costa Rica
Mexico
Venezuela
Cuba Nicaragua

For more information visit
http://www.

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has joined other corporate collaborators in this project,
each of whom have been selected to provide support in their area of expertise
in the development and distribution of this extremely low-cost technology
tool. The founding corporate members are
Google, News Corp , AMD, Red Hat, and Brightstar.7 billion.

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In total, PepsiAmericas serves geographic areas with a population of
more than 122 million people.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
This innovative report will give telecom managers around the world an
immediate picture of the regions' telecom market liberalisation status.

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operations, effective March 21. I am thrilled that we will
have such an experienced and well -rounded leader at the helm of our
largest business unit. The organization seeks to make extremely low cost
laptop computers that can be manufactured and distributed to literally every
child in the world."
The $100 laptop is envisioned as a Linux-based, full color, full screen
laptop enabled with both WiFi and cellular technology and produced to be able
to handle a rugged, child 's environment.
Headquartered in Miami, FL, Brightstar has operations in Argentina, Australia,
Barbados , Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala , Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru,
Puerto Rico, Trinidad + Tobago, Uruguay, the U. The company
serves over 160 network operators and 15,000 resellers, retailers and agents
around the world and also represents many of the world's leading wireless
manufacturers.

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"I credit Mike with much of the success we've had
implementing our strategy, which has returned value to our
shareholders and drawn positive attention from the investment
community since the PepsiAmericas merger in November 2000.

Brightstar Announces Commitment to Development of $100 Laptop as Part of 'One Laptop Per Child' Not-for-Profit Initiative

, a principal research scientist at the MIT Media
Lab, who developed groundbreaking research in video compression
-- Mitchel Resnick, professor of learning research at the MIT Media Lab
and co-founder of the worldwide network of Computer Clubhouses for
children; and
-- Ted Selker, MIT Media Lab professor and inventor of numerous patents
for products ranging from notebook computers to operating systems. and Venezuela.

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"Mike has tremendous experience in the bottling industry and will
lead PepsiAmericas, its people and its business toward healthy ,
ongoing growth," Mr.
Claure added, "Brightstar's customers and employees live and work in many
of the targeted markets, allowing us to see firsthand the positive effects and
give back to the communities that we serve today. For more information about the project, visit
http://laptop .edu . All three individuals and
five companies are active participants in OLPC.M.

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Company Joins Leading Corporations and MIT Media Lab to Transform
Global Education

MIAMI, Brightstar, a leading logistics and supply
chain management company for the wireless industry, announced today it has
joined a select group of leading global businesses and the MIT Media Lab in
the "One Laptop Per Child" not-for-profit initiative."
The OLPC initiative is targeting some of the poorest children in the world
in nations such as Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and India . During the year ending 2004, Brightstar's revenues exceeded
$1.

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Over more than 24 years in the Pepsi system, Mr."
"This program is critical to improving education globally," said R.
Marcelo Claure, CEO and president of Brightstar.S.com
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Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, said,
"Brightstar, known for innovation in the wireless technology industry, joins
the MIT Media Lab to change the face of education across the globe.

About the MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Laboratory is an international leader in the development of
innovative digital media and information technologies, and has pioneered a
uniquely flexible, non-hierarchical organization, designed to encourage
unconventional and counter -intuitive thinking.researchandmarkets.