[GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP LETTERHEAD]
Anthony J. Marsico
(212) 801-9362
marsicoa@gtlaw.com
January 11, 2005
VIA EDGAR TRANSMISSION
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Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Wireless Telecom Group, Inc.
Preliminary Proxy Materials on Schedule 14A
Commission File No. 1-11916
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of Wireless Telecom Group, Inc., a New Jersey corporation
(the "Registrant"), we transmit herewith for filing with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), pursuant to Rule 101(a)(iii) of
Regulation S-T under the Commission's Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval
System and Section 14 of, and Rule 14a-6(a) of Regulation 14A under, the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), the following
preliminary proxy materials:
(i) The Registrant's Chairman's letter and notice of special meeting
relating to a special meeting of the Registrant's shareholders (the "Special
Meeting"), the purpose of which will be for the holders of the Registrant's
common stock, $0.01 par value (the "Registrant's Common Stock"), to consider and
vote upon (A) a proposal to approve the acquisition of all of the outstanding
share capital of Willtek Communications GmbH ("Willtek") by the Registrant, as
contemplated by the stock purchase agreement dated October 5, 2004 by and among
the Registrant, Willtek and each of the shareholders of Willtek (the "Stock
Purchase Agreement"), resulting in Willtek becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of
the Registrant, and all of the other transactions contemplated by the Stock
Purchase Agreement and the related agreements ancillary thereto (the
"Acquisition"), including the issuance of 8,000,000 shares of the Registrant's
Common Stock to the shareholders of Willtek in the Acquisition as partial
consideration for all of the outstanding share capital of Willtek (the
"Issuance"); (B) a proposal to adjourn the Special Meeting, if necessary, to
solicit additional proxies in favor of the proposal to approve the
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Acquisition and the Issuance; and (C) such other matters as may properly come
before the Special Meeting;
(ii) The proxy statement and annexes thereto, constituting a proxy
statement of the board of directors of the Registrant for use in soliciting
proxies with respect to approval by the holders of the Registrant's Common Stock
of the matters to be considered and voted on at the Special Meeting; and
(iii) A form of proxy to be furnished to the holders of the
Registrant's Common Stock in connection with the Special Meeting.
Pursuant to Rule 14a-6(e)(1) under the Exchange Act, the preliminary
proxy materials have been clearly marked "Preliminary Copies". Pursuant to Rule
14a-6(d) under the Exchange Act, definitive copies of the preliminary proxy
materials filed herewith are intended to be released to the holders of the
Registrant's Common Stock entitled to vote at the Special Meeting at the
earliest practicable date.
A filing fee in the amount of $5,992 was sent by wire transfer on
January 10, 2005 to the designated lockbox depositary at Mellon Bank (ABA
#043000261). The Registrant's CIK number with the Commission for fee payments is
0000878828.
The filing fee has been calculated in accordance with Rules 14a-6(i)(1)
and 0-11 under the Exchange Act and is equal to 1/50th of 1% of the sum of (i)
the product of 8,000,000 (the number of shares of the Registrant's Common Stock
to be issued in the Acquisition to shareholders of Willtek) and $2.87 (the
average of the high and low prices per share of the Registrant's Common Stock
reported on the American Stock Exchange on January 7, 2005), and (ii)
$7,000,000 (the amount of cash consideration to be paid in the Acquisition to
shareholders of Willtek).
The Registrant has not yet established the record date for the Special
Meeting.
If the Commission's Staff undertakes to review the enclosed filings,
the Registrant respectfully hereby requests that any questions or comments be
communicated as promptly as practicable so that definitive proxy materials can
be released by the Registrant to its shareholders at the earliest practicable
date.
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In addition, the Registrant respectfully hereby requests that copies of
all notices and communications from the Commission's Staff be transmitted to
Paul Genova, the Registrant's President and Chief Financial Officer, at Wireless
Telecom Group, Inc., 25 Eastmans Road, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054, (tel:
201-261-8797; fax: 201-261-8339), with courtesy copies to each of Robert H.
Cohen, Esq. and Anthony J. Marsico, Esq., the Registrant's outside counsel, at
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, The MetLife Building, 200 Park Avenue, New York, New
York 10166 (tel: 212-801-9200; fax: 212-801-6400).
Sincerely,
/s/ Anthony J. Marsico
Anthony J. Marsico
cc: Karabet Simonyan
Paul Genova
Hazem Ben-Gacem
Dirk Schmuecking
Cyrille Damany
Eckehard Mielke
Robert H. Cohen, Esq.
Carsten Flasshoff
Dr. Laurenz Wieneke
Scott Salpeter
Timothy Pickett