BICS, a global provider of international wholesale connectivity and interoperability services, today announced it has closed the acquisition of TeleSign, following the April 25th announcement of entering a definitive agreement to acquire the US-based CPaaS company for $230M. The closing of the acquisition creates the world\u2019s first end-to-end CPaaS provider, bridging the market-leading TeleSign cloud communications platform with one of the largest global carriers in the world. <\/p>\n
TeleSign will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of BICS with the brand name TeleSign. The company also continues under the leadership of CEO Aled Miles, and adds Daniel Kurgan, CEO of BICS, as the Chairman of the Board. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to have brought the TeleSign acquisition to completion and [sic] enthusiastic to add TeleSign\u2019s deep pool of talent and expertise to the BICS family. This complementary combination accelerates several of our strategies for growth, including expanding our customer base, regional reach and product innovation. We have also broadened our expertise within the cloud communications development life-cycle, and will build and grow TeleSign\u2019s established strong position in the fast-growing CPaaS and cloud security markets\u201d, stated Daniel Kurgan, CEO of BICS and Chairman of TeleSign.<\/p>\n
TeleSign has built a strong business in mobile identity, account security and cloud communication solutions and has been the trusted partner to the world\u2019s top Internet brands or mobile applications looking to engage and secure end-users. The acquisition strengthens TeleSign\u2019s push into the high-growth communications Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market. In a recent report, IDC forecasts the worldwide voice and text messaging communications Platform-as-a-Service market to grow from $867 million in 2016 to $8.2 billion in 2021. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re powering a fundamental change in the way businesses engage their users. Our platform enables developers to add real-time communications and security into their applications without the need for complex backend infrastructure. Now backed by BICS\u2019 extensive global network and its direct reach to over 700 mobile and fixed operators worldwide \u2013 TeleSign\u2019s trusted platform is in a class by itself in terms of global reach, network reliability and overall quality of service,\u201d said Aled Miles, CEO of TeleSign.<\/p>\n
As businesses of all sizes and sectors embrace cloud communications to create innovative new services and transform how they communicate with their customers, this acquisition creates a clear leader in the field to help them achieve their goals. BICS and TeleSign will move forward focused on their respective core businesses while benefiting from immediate and future synergies in areas such as jointly investing in accelerating product roadmaps to speed up time to market and leveraging rich data reservoirs to enrich product offerings. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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