Vodafone Deploy Openmind SMSC Platform in Ghana

April 28, 2010 - Vodafone Ghana and Openmind today announced the successful deployment of an advanced messaging platform for Vodafone Ghana. The new technology ensures Vodafone Ghana with the support of Openmind can deliver the best quality and most innovative messaging services in Ghana such as protection from spam and fraud.

Vodafone Ghana is in the process of a total technology refresh that will ensure that it delivers to Ghanaians the highest quality voice, messaging and data experience. As a customer obsessed company, this additional technology upgrade compliments existing technology projects currently underway in Vodafone Ghana.

"Operators choose Traffic Control as they can use it to replace a simple SMSC with a platform infinitely more flexible and feature-rich", says Alex Duncan, CEO of Openmind. "In Vodafone's case, they have replaced a basic SMSC with a geographically redundant Traffic Control solution that combines high volume messaging capacity with anti-spam and anti-fraud filters, bulk messaging access for service providers, an Open API for service creation, and advanced business intelligence and reporting".

"Our decision to deploy Traffic Control is part of our overall strategic focus on convergence, consolidation and synergizing of all business offerings into a common IP network", added Eric Valentine, Head of Technology Systems at Vodafone Ghana. "Traffic Control is fully SIGTRAN-enabled, so we can easily connect it to our new IP backbone, and its consolidated architecture enables us to provide richer services to our customer base in a cost-effective fashion".

About Openmind
Openmind Networks is the market leading supplier of a new generation of messaging platform that allows mobile operators to replace inefficient and outdated legacy SMSCs with a more feature-rich and powerful alternative. Openmind provides a single consolidated solution to operator needs for increased and cost-effective SMS capacity combined with higher security, richer functionality and interworking with IP messaging technologies. Since 2008, Openmind has replaced legacy SMSCs at 10 Tier 1 and Tier 2 networks in Europe and 2 Tier 1 networks in Africa.

About Vodafone
Vodafone in Ghana is an operating company of Vodafone Group Plc., the world's leading mobile telecommunications company, with a significant presence in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States.
Vodafone Ghana is the only total communications solutions provider - mobile, fixed lines, internet, voice and data - and is currently unmatched in providing fixed line and internet services - the leader and the first choice for Ghanaians.