Vodafone Portugal Selects Acision Message Controller to Streamline, Enhance and Evolve Messaging Services

Mobile World Congress, BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswireAsia/ — 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.