- Acision
Acision is a privately held
mobile communications network infrastructure company specialising in messaging and charging systems that enable popular services such asShort message service (SMS),Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS),IP messaging ,mobile internet browsing andvoicemail .History
Acision's roots lie in Irish mobile telecommunications pioneers
Aldiscon , who developed the first Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), "Telepath", and its now standardized protocolSMPP in 1993.Aldiscon was acquired by UK-based
Logica in 1997, which merged with CMG in 2002 to form LogicaCMG. Acision was born onFebruary 20 ,2007 , when LogicaCMG Telecom Products was sold for £265m (US $525m) to private investorsAtlantic Bridge Ventures andAccess Industries and became known as Acision. [ [http://www.mobilecowboys.com/news/55 LogicaCMG sells Telecom Products] ] The lead investor at Atlantic Bridge (and now executive chairman at Acision),Laurence Quinn , was one of the founders of Aldiscon. [http://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/news_analysis/112676/Mighty_Quinn_back_on_top_at_Logica.html]As of 2008 , Acision has over 300 mobile operators as customers who serve over a billion end users, and over 50 per cent of global messaging traffic is generated through Acision's platforms. The company employs approximately 1,700 people in 22 countries across six continents. [http://www.accessindustries.com/index.php?p=investments]References
External links
* [http://www.acision.com Acision]
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