Openmind Wins SMSC Deal at Geocell

October 8, 2010 - Dublin, Ireland – Geocell, Georgia's first GSM operator, has become the latest European carrier to swap-out their legacy SMSC platform for the all-IP, LTE-ready Traffic Control advanced messaging product from Openmind Networks. Geocell, part of the TeliaSonera/Turkcell- owned Fintur group, has selected Openmind to replace their legacy SMSC. Geocell's move follows a similar decision by fellow Fintur operator Moldcell earlier this year, and reflects the increasing momentum within the European operator community to phase-out older SMSCs in favour of modern, cost-effective and more richly-featured alternatives. Openmind, with a strong heritage in supplying messaging solutions to operators, has become the clear leader in the SMSC-replacement market.

"We placed our trust in Openmind's experts to re-build our messaging network and provide us with a platform for new growth in messaging services and profits", said Mustafa Donbaloglu, Geocell CTO. "Openmind have repaid our trust and guided us seamlessly through the migration process. We are now fully live with Traffic Control, and are excited about the potential it gives us to bring new and advanced services to our customer base".

"This new deal strengthens our relationship with Fintur and demonstrates again that Openmind is the company most European operators turn to when the time comes to overhaul their messaging network", added Openmind CEO, Alex Duncan. "Operators pick us because of the depth of our expertise in messaging and implementing migration projects, and because our core platform unifies and consolidates legacy and emerging technologies hence providing a clear runway from today's SMS to tomorrow's world of fully converged communications services".

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leading supplier of a new generation of messaging platform that allows mobile operators to replace inefficient and outdated legacy SMSCs with a more feature-rich and powerful alternative.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 11 Tier 1 and Tier 2 networks in Europe and 2 Tier 1 networks in Africa.