Vodafone Portugal Selects Acision Message Controller to Streamline, Enhance and Evolve Messaging Services
Mobile World Congress, BARCELONA, Spain, February 27, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
Acision, a global leader in mobile messaging services, today announced that Vodafone
Portugal is upgrading its existing Acision messaging infrastructure with the
implementation of Acision Message Controller and Acision Flexible Gateway. The deployment
of this Acision solution will enable Vodafone Portugal to boost message delivery
efficiency and enable new messaging services. This is one of thirty-two Acision Message
Controller deployments being rolled out worldwide.
Deployed alongside Acision Flexible Gateway, a flexible real-time mediation and
service brokering engine, Acision Message Controller ensures highly efficient real-time
charging and enhanced message routing for increased quality of service. It also brings a
significant step in messaging architecture evolution and advanced integration of enhanced,
cloud based messaging services. By delivering essential features for building new services
and revenue streams, Acision Message Controller bridges the future needs of 3G and 4G
networks by extending existing mass market services such as SMS and MMS to IP users, and
leveraging the opportunity of new IP based messaging services in a single, consolidated
environment.
"Acision has always demonstrated reliability, innovation and excellent service
delivery, and because of this we have implemented Acision's technology and services based
on our trusted relationship." said Jorge Bento, Director Network Products & Services,
Vodafone Portugal.
Russell Grahame, SVP and General Manager of Europe and Russia at Acision states: "Our
strong collaboration with Vodafone Portugal ensures they can continue to deliver premium
messaging services to their customers long into the future, and maintain their market
leading position."
"SMS as a service continues to be an important source of mobile operators' mobile data
revenues and growing, protecting and extending this revenue base is a fundamental business
objective, which can be underpinned by Acision's messaging and charging products. In
addition, Acision will play a part in Vodafone Portugal's evolution strategy, enabling the
operator to trial new, innovative messaging solutions from Acision's Cloud based Services
Store," concluded Jorgen Nilsson, Chief Executive, Acision.
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About Acision
As the global leader in mobile messaging, Acision connects the world by powering relevant,
seamless messaging services, which enrich the mobile communications experience and create
new opportunities for carriers and enterprises across the world. For more information,
visit Acision at http://www.acision.com