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Sky sells Easynet Global Services to LDC for £100m

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London, UK. July 21, 2010 – Global provider of managed solutions, Easynet, has today reached an agreement with BSkyB (Sky) over the proposed sale of Easynet Global Services and its subsidiaries to Lloyds Development Capital (LDC), a UK private equity company.

LDC will pay Sky £100 million (EUR 119m) for the business on completion of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval and a works council consultation in respect of certain Easynet employees. Easynet reports that its existing management team, including CEO David Rowe, has demonstrated a strong track record over a number of years and will have the full backing of LDC, which is fully funded by the Lloyds Banking Group. Staff numbers will be unaffected by the sale.

Sky will retain the UK network assets that it acquired as part of the original acquisition of Easynet Group in 2005. As part of the proposed sale, Sky and LDC will enter into a long-term supply agreement in which Easynet Global Services will have continued access to Sky’s fibre network. BSkyB will also continue to be a business customer of Easynet.

David Rowe, Easynet's CEO,  commented: “This is an excellent opportunity for Easynet, its customers, and its staff. It provides us with additional capital to help fund the company’s next phase of development and allows us to retain a business relationship with Sky. Since being part of the Sky family we’ve grown in stature in the UK, and globally too. Our revenue has increased year on year, and we’ve continued to dominate the fast-growing segments of managed hosting, managed telepresence, Internet Protocol (IP) solutions and connectivity, whilst maintaining growth and innovation in our network services and products. We look forward to continuing this success under new ownership and building on our enviable reputation for excellent customer service and a global portfolio.”

Sky acquired the Easynet Group in 2005 to support its strategy of diversifying into consumer broadband and home telephony. Following the successful launch of Sky’s residential communications services and the continued growth and profitability of Easynet’s Enterprise business, the decision was made to look at options to divest the Global Services business as it is not core to Sky’s longer-term strategic goals.

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Telkom calls on InfoVista for World Cup service assurance

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Paris, France and Herndon, VA, USA. June 15, 2010 — InfoVista (Euronext IFV-FR0004031649), a provider of proactive service assurance software systems, reports that Telkom, Africa’s largest integrated communications provider, has adopted InfoVista’s systems for Application Performance Management to ensure optimal application performance and bandwidth requirement management. As a National Supporter for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Telkom has committed to support the broadcast of all games during the month long event, and enable the interconnection of important event venues, including the 10 World Cup stadiums, broadcast compounds, media centres, the International Broadcast Centre, and the FIFA headquarters locations.

Telkom is among the first service providers to take Carrier Grade application acceleration to market in Africa. Leveraging Cisco’s Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) and Network Analysis Module (NAM), InfoVista’s system enables Telkom to deliver uninterrupted coverage of the event and seamless connectivity throughout. Additionally, Telkom plans to offer application acceleration as a service to its VPN enterprise customers, allowing them to reduce operating expense for bandwidth and increase return on investment.

“InfoVista is proud that Telkom has chosen our solution to provide the critical visibility and reporting needed to ensure application performance for this historic World Cup event,” said Pete Shah, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations at InfoVista. "This validates the unified application and network performance management approach brought by InfoVista to the business service provider market, already adopted by major communication service providers around the globe."

The football World Cup is the largest single sporting event in the world with a cumulative audience of more than 26 billion. The 2010 FIFA World Cup, which is taking place from June 11 – July 11, is the first to be held on the African continent.

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Synchronica completes acquisition of Colibria’s IMPS instant messaging business

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Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK. April 29, 2010 – Synchronica plc, the international provider of next-generation mobile messaging services, has announced that all resolutions to acquire Colibria’s IMPS business have been passed, and Synchronica has its shareholders' support to complete the purchase and associated fund-raising.

Synchronica agreed to acquire Colibria's IMPS instant messaging business, reseller agreements, and existing worldwide mobile operator customer base on March 31, allowing Synchronica to accelerate its entry into the fast growing mobile IM (instant messaging) sector and helping to achieve its goal of becoming the leader in next-generation mobile messaging for emerging markets.

Synchronica will continue to develop, market, and support Colibria's open standards-based IM technology as a stand-alone product. The software will also be integrated into Synchronica's Mobile Gateway messaging suite and will be pre-installed on the recently launched MessagePhone, a low cost, messaging-centric handset powered by Mobile Gateway. As part of the transaction, Colibria will transfer 13 carrier contracts to Synchronica including two large carrier groups with an addressable market of more than 300 million subscribers, while also transferring two reseller agreements with a tier one network equipment provider and a leading messaging infrastructure software provider.

David Mason, Chairman of Synchronica plc, comments: "The purchase of Colibria's Instant Messaging software is highly complementary to Synchronica's mobile email and synchronisation suite and gives us increased advantage in the rapidly expanding market for mobile messaging software. Also, the contracts acquired from Colibria give us access to key clients in high growth areas, including Latin America, Africa and CIS. We are fully committed to continued development and support of the Colibria IMPS product and we are looking forward to work with Colibria’s customers and partners to ensure a seamless transition and continuity with equal or improved support and a convincing product roadmap."

Synchronica plc is a developer of next generation mobile messaging solutions based on open industry standards. The award-winning product portfolio includes the flagship product Mobile Gateway, providing push email, synchronisation, IM, backup and restore, and mobile connectivity to social networks. Synchronica's products are white-labelled and offered by mobile operators in emerging and developed markets to provide mass market messaging services, increasing data revenues and reducing churn.

Synchronica Mobile Gateway provides a unique multi-protocol gateway combining Push IMAP, SyncML, ActiveSync, Email to MMS, and Email to SMS, delivering push email and synchronisation to literally any mobile phone currently in the market without requiring an additional client to be downloaded. Expanding instant messaging to mobile devices, Mobile Gateway establishes carrier-branded IM communities, using the industry standard XMPP and provides gateways to popular internet IM communities, connecting any IMPS-enabled handset.

Headquartered in England, Synchronica also maintains a development centre in Germany, in addition to regional presences in the USA, Hong Kong, and Dubai. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.L). 

Founded in 2000, Colibria is a global provider of new generation messaging, presence and socially aware network address book solutions. Colibria’s investors areVerdane Capital, Ferd Venture, and Bjørgvin Vekst I AS.

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