Bohemia Company Answers Call To Fix Phones

As Seen in Newsday February 1, 2010 By James Bernstein

There is apparently a lot of money to be made in repairing old cell phones. Just ask Communications Wireless Group of Bohemia. On second thought, don’t ask them anything. We tried, and they never returned our phone calls, telling their real estate broker they would prefer to remain silent.
Their money talks for them, however.
The privately held company just paid $11 million for a 149,000-square-foot building in Farmingdale to use as office and warehouse space. Only three months ago, CWG moved into a 90,000-square-foot headquarters building in Bohemia, from a smaller facility in Holbrook. CWG acquired the Bohemia building 14 months ago and renovated it “soup to nuts,” said Richard Cohen, president of Hauppauge-based Ashlind Properties. Cohen brokered the deals for both the Bohemia and Farmingdale buildings.
The company says of itself that about 1 billion cell phones are sold annually worldwide, and that means “that roughly 1 billion old cell phones have come to the end of their first life. We reuse, recycle and refurbish wireless devices . . . and send them back down the supply chain to start a new life.”
So why are these guys so under the radar? “They’re low-key doing business in a professional manner,” Cohen said.

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