NEWS
LINK Mobility Group AS strengthens position in
French market
L
INK Mobility Group AS (‘LINK’), one of Europe’s leading and
fastest growing providers of B2C mobile messaging and mobile
services, has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition
of French mobile messaging company, Multiwizz SAS (‘Multiwizz’).
Multiwizz was established in 2009 and is located in Aix en Provence,
France. The company holds a strong position in the French market
and is one of the leading mobile messaging and SMS marketing
providers in France based on the company’s two platforms; Envoyer
SMS Pro and Hexa SMS.
Arild E. Hustad, CEO of LINK, commented: “I am happy to announce
that we have now taken our second step into the French market
through the acquisition of Multiwizz. This big European market
experiences strong growth and high demand for advanced mobile
messaging and solutions services. Multiwizz has a strong customer
base of more than 5,000 customers in France and we see good
potential to grow the overall customer base in France through
increased penetration of both existing and new services. LINK has
now grown its customer base in Europe through organic growth
and acquisitions over the last 12 months from 10,000 to more than
20,000 customers.”
Blaise Thiercelin, CEO of Multiwizz, said: “I am very proud that
Multiwizz joins a group like LINK Mobility Group that will provide
more valuable mobile solutions and services to our clients, enabling
the company to pursue its growth. Multiwizz’s commercial and
technical teams are excited by this new opportunity to reinforce our
customer satisfaction with new high-quality innovative services.”
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Orange launches LTE-M network in France and
expands its offer throughout Europe
A
s part of Orange’s ambition to succeed
in the field of connected objects, Orange
has announced the commercial launch of its
Long Term Evolution for Machines (LTE-M)
network in France. The launch in France
follows the opening of Orange’s first LTE-M
network in Belgium in May 2018. Orange
will launch further LTE-M networks in Spain
and Romania by the end of 2018. The
launches mark Orange’s progress in serving
the connected object market and underline
its commitment to deploy LTE-M and LoRa
as its leading IoT technologies across its
European footprint.
deployed on Orange’s 4G networks, will
address objects that are on the move,
in buildings or underground places. It is
therefore suitable for logistical monitoring,
telemonitoring, remote assistance and
fleet management. Furthermore, LTE-M
technology benefits from all the features of
4G including security, real-time connectivity
and international roaming, thanks to broad
support of the technology from other
operators worldwide and already integrates
with future 5G standards.
The combination of LTE-M and LoRa
technologies will enable Orange to fully
support the explosion in the IoT market
and address the broad range of use
cases. Orange will select the appropriate
technology on a country-by-country basis.
LTE-M, which is a technology specifically
dedicated to connected objects and
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