CHENNAI, India, July 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Plintron, the world's largest multi-country, cloud-based telecom infrastructure for MNO, MVNO and Enterprise, today announced its offering of "Telco on Cloud" services to Somalia's MNO, ASGSM.MOBI. This tie-up between Plintron and ASGSM.MOBI includes a technology stage for hosted end to end mobile core network for ASGSM.MOBI's basic services and international roaming.
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ASGSM.MOBI is a mobile network operator, holding a GSM and 3G license in Somalia and operating since 2009.
The technology involves Plintron's own indigenous infrastructure that hosts "Telco" with NSS, BSS, OSS solutions on a cloud platform, which is robust, high on efficiency and is also cost-effective. This works on an offshore managed services business model.
Plintron already has been running its "Telco on a cloud" platform successfully in Europe, USA and Australia.
Somalia's telecom market is fast developing, and is expected to have mobile penetration by end of this year, to about 52% of its population. This African nation is an interesting geography and it is expected to have over 6.1 million mobile subscribers by 2015.
Mohan Kumar Sundaram, Founder & CEO, Plintron, said, "Plintron is delighted to partner and to provide 'Telco on a cloud' to ASGSM.MOBI. With an increased adoption of cloud platforms by telecom operators, Plintron is all geared up to give a complete 'Telco on a cloud' solution to clients the world over. The cloud is set to become an important delivery model in the future for it enables operators to deliver more sophisticated services and highly-targeted marketing, and also significantly reduces capex and opex for wire-line, wireless, cable, satellite and other types of service providers."
Abdullahi Abdi Hussein, President & CEO of ASGSM.MOBI, said, "We are very happy about our tie-up with Plintron for running our Mobile Network services. Plintron has worldwide reach and proven 'Telco on cloud' platform and end-to-end Managed Services, that we believe would provide seamless and smooth connectivity for our home and roaming customers."
About Plintron
Plintron is the world's largest multi-country, cloud-based telecom infrastructure for MNO, MVNO and Enterprise. Plintron has the telecom industry's most comprehensive roll-outs for these domains and its lines of businesses include MVNA, MVNE, M2M, Mobile Wallet and Money Cards, providing converging voice, data and video across UK, Europe, Australia and USA. The company currently services 18 countries and connects subscribers globally. The established markets are in United Kingdom/Europe, Australia and now in USA. http://www.plintron.com
About ASGSM.MOBI
ASGSM.MOBI is a Somali GSM/3G services company providing, in addition to its domestic services, prepaid international roaming services, including mobile remittance working nationally and internationally. ASGSM.MOBI's international prepaid roaming service is called SALAMGSM and its mobile money transfer service is called GOCASH. http://www.salamgsm.com
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