Taqua Expands Global Partnerships to Drive Growing Operator Demand for VoWiFi

Exponentially expanding its global reach, Taqua, LLC, a US based supplier of mobile and fixed communications solutions, has announced a number of new partnerships with leading mobile telecommunications systems integrators and solutions providers to help fulfill demand for its Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) portfolio in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

These new partnerships extend Taqua’s existing presence in North America and Europe to key growth regions, allowing the company to serve a growing list of mobile communications service providers that are interested in deploying VoWiFi to improve indoor service coverage.

This new set of Taqua partners will sell and support the company’s Virtual Mobile Core and Mobile Client solution, which enables VoWiFi and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services utilizing an operator’s existing mobile infrastructure without requiring expensive or complicated upgrades.

“Mobile operators and MVNOs worldwide are realizing the growing importance of Wi-Fi Calling as a value-added service that solves real-world coverage issues for incumbents, and provides a fast, cost effective on-ramp to advanced voice and messaging services for new providers,” said Gary Sarson, vice president of business development for Taqua. “We’re excited to work with our new regional partners to make VoWiFi technology accessible on a global scale, and to extend Wi-Fi Calling benefits to millions of mobile subscribers.”

Taqua has signed agreements with the following regional telecom solutions providers:

•Lintas Teknologi Indonesia, a leading telecommunications systems integrator, providing core infrastructure, applications and managed services solutions to major telecommunication operators across the Indonesian archipelago.

•CommLogik, maximizes the business value for Communication Service Providers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean by enhancing their core infrastructures, ensuring interoperability and/or expanding their service delivery capabilities. With subsidiaries in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador, CommLogik provides integration and support services to partners throughout the region.

•JSC Indochina Telecommunication Technology (ITT), a leading technology system integrator and solution provider in Southeast Asia, providing technical services and telecommunications technology to major mobile network operators and equipment manufacturers in Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia.

•Ledefyl, manages operations across Latin America and the Caribbean where the company provides a host of services such as 24/7 network monitoring, RF engineering, consulting and project management, and network deployment and custom software solutions.

•Bynet Data Communications Ltd., a leading system integrator in Israel, providing comprehensive Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and telecom solutions to fixed and mobile operators in Israel for over 40 years.

•TCRP, a leading turnkey system integrator specializing in critical core and access network solutions for tier one mobile and fixed operators in the Caribbean, Brazil, Mexico and Latin America markets.

Taqua’s Virtual Mobile Core (VMC) is a converged 4G mobile core enabling rapid deployment of next-generation mobile voice and messaging services. The VMC is a carrier-grade software product that converges a number of 3GPP standard functions, including a Telephony Application Server (TAS), IP Short Message Gateway (IP-SM-GW), Service Consistency and Continuity Application Server (SCC-AS), and Media Resource Function (MRF). The VMC can be deployed in pre-IMS or IMS networks, and also has the ability to be deployed as a standard MSC/VLR in existing mobile networks.