ABI Insight

Cinterion: Anatomy of an Insolvency

Author: Sam Lucero, Practice Director, M2M & Embedded

Published: 28 Apr 2010

Nothing beats announcing right before a major international trade show that your company is undertaking insolvency proceedings, setting the market abuzz with speculation and rumors. Cinterion Wireless Modules, the longtime market share leader (by unit shipment volume) in the M2M cellular embedded module market, has just experienced this first-hand. The company sent out a special press release aimed at business partners and other interested stakeholders on March 22, 2010 – the first day of the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas – announcing that its parent holding company (Cinterion Wireless Modules Holding GmbH) was “reorganizing its financial structure” under German insolvency law. What are the particulars of Cinterion’s announcement and the resulting implications for the company and the wider market?

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