New SMS Capability for Liberia

Excel Switching Corp. and Argent Networks of Auckland, New Zealand have announced the successful deployment of ArgentSMSC by Libercell, a leading wireless carrier in Southern Africa for the delivery of SMS services throughout Liberia. Argent's Excel-based SMS solution delivers cost effective Short Message Service Center (SMS-C) functionality for Libercell's wireless network customers, enabling them to efficiently exchange short text messages between mobile telephones in their own network and other mobile networks.

In Liberia, post civil war reconstruction is actively underway, and telecommunications infrastructure throughout the country is rapidly being rebuilt, expanded, and migrated to next generation infrastructure.

"As a leading provider of mobile services in this region, it is very important for us to offer our subscribers advanced communications services first to maintain our competitive edge," said Azzam Sbaity, CEO of Libercell. "The modular design of the Excel-based Argent SMS-C solution allowed us to quickly get the SMS service up and running and deployed to our subscribers at a very reasonable cost. The solution works within our legacy infrastructure and also with next generation 2.5G/3G infrastructure, so we are future proof."

Posted to the site on 8th February 2005