Former private British mobile communications company
Acision
Company type
Private
Industry
Mobile communications
Predecessor
Aldiscon, CMG
Founded
2007
Fate
Acquired by Comverse, Inc. in 2015 (later became Xura, then Mavenir)
Headquarters
Reading, Berkshire, UK
Key people
Lawrence Quinn, Founder
Didier Bench, Executive chairman
Adolfo Hernandez, CEO
Products
Data services
Data control
Data charging
Revenue
US$0.5 billion
Number of employees
1,100 (2013)
Website
Acision
Acision was a privately held British mobile communications network infrastructure company engaged in messaging and charging systems that enable popular services such as Short message service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), mobile internet browsing, mobile broadband, and voicemail. In particular, Acision specialised in providing IP messaging to over-the-top media services and other enterprises.[1]
Acision was founded in 2007 as a spin-off of the wireless networks business from LogicaCMG.[2] It existed as an independent, private company until it was purchased by Comverse, Inc. in 2015.[3]
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