First Hop makes for better Airwide solution

Rating: adding a little Finnish

By Annie Turner

Airwide Solutions has acquired First Hop of Espoo, Finland. First Hop is a pioneer in mobile service control and gateway technologies that enable operators to speed the time to market of “new services, business models and targeted content and campaigns”.

Airwide has more than 120 operator customers and reckons the acquisition extends the flexibility of its tiered architecture, Fusion. Apparently mobile service control enables functionality like context, personalisation and profiling.

Well, it makes a change for a company from Espoo to be acquired rather than acquiring. And I fancy the chances of these two melding rather better than Nokia and Enpocket.

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