Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier Silverstreet today announces its expansion to the Asia Pacific region.
The office will be based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This location is chosen because of its emerging environment and central location in the region.
The office will offer technical support services to clients in the Asia Pacific region as well as to the Silverstreet customer base located in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Kuala Lumpur office is equipped with a 100% duplicate of the Network Operations Center of Silverstreet’s headquarters in Oosterhout, the Netherlands. With the opening of this office Silverstreet expands its technical support and monitoring service to true 24/7/365 availability for its customers.
Silverstreet will offer its full range of Mobile messaging and payment services to the Asia Pacific region. Customers in the Asia Pacific region can also benefit from Silverstreet’s Premium messaging connectivity in Europe while our European customers can soon benefit from our Premium messaging connectivity in the Asia Pacific region.
Silverstreet today also announces the appointment of Mr. William Ho as the Business Development manager for the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Ho is a seasoned executive with 10 years of sales and marketing experience in developing new business and leading commercial negotiations in the Asia Pacific region. His previous posting was with Radius ED Sdn Bhd. He also spent 5 years with Virtual Commerce Sdn Bhd, a provider of financial data, bandwidth and infrastructure solutions to the banking and stockbroking sector in Malaysia. Mr. Ho will mostly focus on expanding Silverstreet’s clientele in the region.
“Expanding into this region was the next logical step. I’m confident we will be successful in this region because we have a very strong and professional team of people coming from similar and complementary industries” says Silverstreet Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Simon Landsheer, who is currently primarily based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to oversee the expansion.
About Silverstreet:
Silverstreet, founded in 1999, is a specialist in Mobile Messaging (SMS) offering global MT termination options (covering more then 700 networks) and focusing specifically on mission critical traffic and high volume (wholesale) clients.
Our footprint is global. Next to our global reach with non billed messages we have coverage with Premium SMS in 26 countries and always expanding. Currently Silverstreet employs 37 people, and has reached a volume of over 2 billion SMS messages thus far in 2009.
For further information contact:
Silverstreet
Mr. Simon Landsheer
Wisma MPL, 1703C Jalan Raja Chulan
50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
tel: +60193317092
e-mail:
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