LogicaCMG Wins in Nigeria

CAIRO -- LogicaCMG today announced three new contracts for Short Message Service and Cell Broadcast with Nitel, Reltel and Starcomm in Nigeria, through its partnership with Ericsson, the world leading telecom supplier. These contracts underline the company's growing presence in the African marketplace, bringing its customer base to over 35 mobile operators across the continent.

All three contracts have resulted from the company's strong partnership program with Ericsson, who resell SMS and Cell broadcast products and extend LogicaCMG's reach to Africa's 120 mobile operators.

Since the merger between Logica and CMG, LogicaCMG is currently winning new customers in the African region at the rate of one new customer per month.

LogicaCMG's partnership with Ericsson has proved particularly successful and resulted in previous deployments in Angola, Cameroon, Swaziland, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The new contracts in Nigeria, in cooperation with Ericsson, mean that six of the local Nigerian mobile operators now use LogicaCMG short messaging and cell broadcast solutions.

"This new business demonstrates the strength of our offering and our commitment to the African marketplace", said Fintan Supple, Sales Director Africa, LogicaCMG Wireless Networks. "We are now more engaged than ever in Africa with a strong local presence and a network of offices and agents in a number of countries. This combined with our strong partnership strategy has enabled us to continue to enhance our position in the fast growing African marketplace and ensure operators get maximum return from wireless data revenues."

Critical to LogicaCMG's success in the region has been the reliability, availability and low cost-of-ownership of its SMS portfolio coupled with a flexible approach to business which fast growing African mobile operators require.

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