Acting as a single company, Telenity and CIS, plan to bring new mobile value added services to the market. According to industry analysts, Africa will be the main driver of subscription growth of 70% reaching 318 million by year 2011.
Antoine Kareh, CEO at CIS Group, said: Joining Telenity’s global market experience and leading converged services solutions, and CIS Group’s over 25 years of advanced local experience in providing solutions integration to the telecommunications sector, this strategic partnership makes next generation VAS that much closer to mobile operators in Africa.
The partnership will provide African carriers with access to Telenity’s converged value added services (VAS) with localized system integration, project management, consulting and support services from CIS Group.
Telenity is a provider of next generation converged services platforms and applications for communications networks. It’s IMS ready converged services include: reusable service delivery and content components enabling rapid service creation, deployment and execution functionalities across multiple services and applications; location and presence servers; integrated messaging solutions; and value added services.
CIS Group is a technology services provider to business and institutions and is part of an international group operating in Africa and the Middle East. CIS Group offers turnkey solutions integrating hardware, middleware and vertical sevices.