Business View Magazine | March 2018

80 AMTEL LLC in their 24 stores comprising 80 percent of the core business. This was a significant feat,considering that themulti-carrier sector hadmore than 100 locations spread across Chicago. In 2005,T-Mobile realized that it had tomeet in- creasing consumer demands for amore professional retail experience and reached out to some of the best wireless operations in the business.George and Ehab were among the fewto be offered an opportunityto open ExclusiveT-Mobile retail locations in a program designed to deliver preciselythe same experience customers could find in its corporate stores-the same fixtures,products,services,and atmosphere.The programmarked the beginning of the pair’s exclusive relationshipwithT-Mobile. “Eddie ended up staying in Chicago; I ended up in Michigan in the Detroit area,”Tadros recounts.“And we startedopening ExclusiveT-Mobile stores.That’s aT-Mobile sign on top,and an Exclusive Dealer sign underneath; it was 70 percent T-Mobile and 30 per- cent dealer.” This opportunityalso provided the two entrepre- neurs to take their business to the next level.Asmarket developers over the next threeyears,Sweis andTadros EHAB“EDDIE”SWEIS GEORGE TADROS