Acision market share breaks 60 pct barrier in North America

Three of the five largest North American mobile operators rely on Acision to meet growing demand for messaging

Singapore, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - CTIA Wireless 2008 (LAS VEGAS) - Acision, the messaging and charging company of choice for over 300 network operators and service providers worldwide, announced today that over 60 per cent of all text messages sent in the US are now managed by Acision messaging solutions.

Acision solutions support messaging services for three of the five largest North American operators. Handling over half of all text messaging traffic in the world, Acision is the dominant global player in messaging and continues to strengthen its North America presence by helping both tier one and regional operators build out their messaging environments.

"Mobile messaging continues to grow dramatically and our customers have already handled 300 billion text messages through our systems worldwide since January this year," said Wayne Irwin, President, the Americas, Acision. "North America is home to one of the highest messaging growth rates in the world and Service Providers here want to have confidence that they are able to maintain a high quality of service, whilst we work with them to develop and implement new messaging features and capabilities. Acision will leverage our extensive experience with tier one Service Providers around the world to enable our North American customers - both large and small - to continue to thrive with mobile data services."

About Acision

Acision is the messaging and charging partner of choice for more than 300 network operators and service providers, supporting over one and a half billion customers worldwide. With over 50 percent of global text and multimedia messaging traffic generated through its platforms, Acision's mobile data services expertise includes text messaging, multimedia messaging, IP messaging, mobile internet, mobile advertising, IP voicemail and IP videomail. Acision's payment systems have processed more than US $100 billion, providing sophisticated real-time charging and removing the boundaries between prepaid and postpaid subscriptions. All of Acision's solutions are backed up by a robust, global service organization, offering 24 7 support provided through 24 local service centers and three state of the art global support centers. With global market experience, Acision has a detailed understanding of what it takes to bring innovative services to full mass market adoption.

Privately owned by an equity consortium led by Atlantic Bridge Ventures and Access Industries, Acision is a half billion dollar company, working with customers in 135 countries across six continents. More information is available at www.acision.com

Press contacts:
For Acision:
Kevin Walters
Marketing Executive, North America
Tel: +1 972 246 5404
Email: kevin.walters@acision.com
Todd Van Hoosear
Topaz Partners
Tel: + 1 781-404-2409
Email: acision@topazpartners.com

SOURCE: Acision
CONTACT: Kevin Walters,
Marketing Executive,
North America for Acision,
+1-972-246-5404,
kevin.walters@acision.com; or
Todd Van Hoosear of Topaz Partners,
+1-781-404-2409,
acision@topazpartners.com
Web Site: http://www.acision.com

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