Acision Delivers First Managed MMSC Service for Airtel, India’s Largest Mobile Operator

September 6th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - - Acision Increases Commitment to Middle East and Africa With Hire of New GM Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Sherif Hamoudah as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Middle East, Africa and Pakistan. With more than 20 years sales and marketing experience in the telecoms industry, Hamoudah will oversee the MEA and Pakistan operations and take responsibility for driving business development in the region as well as enhancing operator relationships.

August 30th, 2009 SINGAPORE - - New GM Focuses on Growth and Business Development in Asia by Extending Acision's Market Reach Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Mark Williams as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Acision's Singapore office, Williams will take responsibility for aggressively driving growth in the region.

July 1st, 2009 SAO PAULO - - Acision Increases its Investment in the LatAm Region to Meet the Needs of Carriers and Introduce Solutions to Help Them Increase Revenues Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Rafael Steinhauser as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Latin America, based in Acision's Sao Paulo office. In this newly created role, Rafael Steinhauser will drive the company's growth across the region and have responsibility for sales, marketing, business development and operations.

June 24th, 2009 JAKARTA - - Advanced Features of Acision Text Suite Provide Indonesian Mobile Subscribers With an Improved and More Personal Messaging Experience Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Telkomsel, the leading operator of cellular telecommunications services in Indonesia, have launched an advanced SMS service to Telkomsel's 75 million customers using the award winning Acision Message Plus. Branded as SMS Pro, the service will be available to both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers of Telkomsel.

June 16th, 2009 READING, England - Nationwide Mobile Location-Based Directory Search Solution is Awarded "Best Consumer Innovation" Award Acision, the world's leading messaging company, is pleased to announce it has won the Best Consumer Innovation Award at last night's Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards, in conjunction with SPH Search, the company behind rednano.sg, Singapore's local search and directory engine. The prestigious award was presented to Acision and SPH Search, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH), Southeast Asia's leading media organization, in recognition of the part the partnership played in the deployment of Rednano Locate, Singapore's first cross-telco mobile, location-based search application offered by Rednano Mobile, the mobile touchpoint of rednano.sg.

April 29th, 2009 PARIS and NEW DELHI - JV Will Manage Airtel's Migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN) to Offer Advanced Services Like High-Speed Internet, Triple Play, Media-Rich VAS, MPLS, VPN for Both Retail and Business Customers - First Managed Services Partnership for Broadband and Telephone Services in India Bharti Airtel, Asia's leading integrated telecom service provider, and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that they have formed a joint venture to manage Bharti Airtel's pan-India broadband and telephone services and help Airtel's transition to next generation networks. Under the joint venture, Alcatel-Lucent will design, plan, deploy, optimize and manage Bharti Airtel's broadband and telephone network across India.

April 27th, 2009 READING, England - 3 Customers to Experience Richer Communication Services With Voicemail and Unified Messaging Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces that, in addition to the recent contract wins with 3 in Australia and Austria, it has also been awarded a contract for messaging services for 3's networks in the UK and Ireland. Acision's solution will be deployed to deliver voicemail services.

April 22nd, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway Deployed to Substantially Increase Usage of Voice Service Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, have launched the world's first fully convergent solution that works across both fixed and mobile networks for post-paid subscribers. Enabled by Acision's innovative real-time, location-based charging solutions, Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway, the service is designed to boost network traffic, primarily voice, by offering free calls within a set city zone.

March 31st, 2009 CTIA - LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announced that it has joined the GSMA's Rich Communication Suite (RCS) Initiative. As part of the RCS Initiative, Acision, along with 60 other member organisations, will be at the forefront of developing rich communication technology and services, which run across IP and multimedia-based networks, such as enhanced messaging, presence enabled contact management and in-call multimedia sharing.

March 16th, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Advanced SMS Features Provide Filipinos With Market Leading Personalisation and Flexibility Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Sun Cellular, the fastest-growing mobile network provider in the Philippines, have partnered to come up with the world's most advanced SMS services using Acision Message Plus. As part of Acision Text Suite, the first open text architecture, Acision Message Plus provides Sun Cellular's mobile subscribers with personalised message management functionality, enabling them to block SMS spam, set up automatic replies and automatically copy or forward messages to another mobile number or email address - all from their handset.

May 29th, 2009 -Exclusive offer only for Airtel Prepaid Mobile customers across the country Bangalore, May 29, 2009: Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom service provider, today announced the launch of the “Magic Dekho, Talktime Pao” offer on its DTH service – digital TV. This is an exclusive offer for Airtel Prepaid Mobile customers across the country where on buying a digital TV connection at Rs.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel Friday said its mobile phone subscriber base had crossed the 100-million mark, making the company the third largest single country service provider in the world. 'Bharti Airtel has achieved 100-million subscriber mark,' said a beaming Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of the Rs.375 billion company.

September 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mobile operator Bharti Airtel Sunday announced two schemes enabling cheaper calls from the US to India as part of a festive season offer. Under the first scheme, users will get 1,353 minutes of calls for $24.99.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Airtel has slashed the one time processing fee for lifetime validity customers from Rs.295 to Rs.99, the company said in a statement Monday. According to the new tariff plan, an Airtel customer on the lifelong plan will have to make a minimum recharge of Rs.200 every 180 days.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Taiwanese handset major HTC Corp, in collaboration with Bharti Airtel, Tuesday launched HTC Magic, India's first smartphone that will run on Google's Android operating system. The device is priced at Rs.29,900 and will be available in Airtel relationship centres and authorised HTC resellers in 17 cities.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's telecom regulator Wednesday issued guidelines on mobile number portability (MNP) that will allow subscribers to change operators while retaining the original number, but only within a particular circle. The new facility will become a reality from Dec 31 in metros and by March 20, 2010 in the rest of the country, said a statement from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Only five telecom operators out of 11 have met the 90 percent quality of service benchmark set by the sector's watchdog, a survey released Friday said. Interestingly, the country's largest private operator Airtel is among the firms that failed to meet the benchmark of 90 percent that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has set for quality of service.

January 11th, 2009 COLOMBO - India's leading mobile telephone service provider Bharti Airtel Monday launched its operations in Sri Lanka, posing a major competition to the four established players here as it vowed to become a market leader soon. Bharti Airtel, rated one of the best performing companies in the world, has invested $200 million in setting up and expanding its operation in Sri Lanka.

April 29th, 2009 Bharti Airtel says quarterly profit up 21 pctMUMBAI, India — Bharti Airtel Ltd., India's largest mobile telephone company, said Wednesday that record subscriber growth fueled a 21 percent rise in quarterly profit. Net profit for the January-March quarter rose 21 percent from the same period last year to 22.39 billion rupees ($459 million).

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's GSM-based mobile subscriber base grew by 8.89 million in June, as compared to the 8.3 million added in May, an industry body said here Monday in a statement. According to the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the apex body of GSM mobile operators, the growth was still sluggish compared to 8.97 million additions in April and 10.8 million in March.