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Silverstreet to support aid to Japan

March 14th, 2011

While we work in a booming industry with phenomenal growth and while we at Silverstreet are fortunate enough to say that we thoroughly enjoy our day to day business efforts, we have all regrettably received a chilling reminder of how fragile and delicate both the world as well as our lives are following the horrific events that recently took place in Japan.

As the world mobilizes to help its fellow man in a time of need, Silverstreet has undertaken an internal company program funded entirely by the staff as well reinforced by the company itself to contribute to this global movement by donating in excess of 10,000 EUR to the Red Cross aid efforts.

“We understand that ten thousand euro will not save Japan on its own but its simply impossible to sit back and witness the tragedy that these people are experiencing without contributing in some way. Its just horrific to think that this could happen to any one of us at any time and I think its important to appreciate how small our world is and thus to help out when needed” said the Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Simon Landsheer.
Silverstreet is proud to take part in the global relief efforts and sincerely hopes that tragedies of this sort will not recur neither in Japan nor anywhere else in the world. The team at Silverstreet further hopes that this will be taken as an example by the companies within the telecommunications industry and across other sectors to follow with similar efforts.
Silverstreet extends its deepest thoughts and prayers to all those involved in this tragedy in Japan and wishes a speedy recovery to the nation and its people.

Silverstreet breaks SMS volume record

December 17th, 2010

While the holiday season is typically a slow business period in most industries, Silverstreet continues to move forward at a rapid pace having registered its highest single month of SMS traffic to date with an estimated 400 million SMS terminated across its platform during the month of December 2010.

“We have made it a goal of ours to remain fully available across all of our departments 365 days of the year and this availability in addition to our experienced international team is to thank for the upsurge in holiday related traffic. While most companies are vacationing, we remain at our posts eager and ready to serve our clients” says Silverstreet Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Simon Landsheer.

With stated intentions to diversify its client base amongst niche corporate elements and a continued effort to expand on its regional presences in Africa, Europe and Asia 2011 stands to be a record-breaking year for the company.
About Silverstreet:
Silverstreet, founded in 1999, is a specialist in Mobile Messaging (SMS) offering global MT termination options across more than 700 mobile networks worldwide. The company is primarily focused on mission critical traffic and high volumes (wholesale) clients reaching its peak SMS traffic performance in 2010 with a total volume of 2.4 Billion SMS terminated across its platform for the calendar year.
Silverstreet maintains a global footprint with teams spanning 10 countries and 3 continents servicing clients in over 100 countries around the world ranging from the A2P aggregator sector, banking, government and corporate entities. In addition to the core SMS portfolio which Silverstreet maintains, the company is also actively involved within the VAS sector towards mobile operators and in niche market development for mobile products.Through its position and experience in the mobile market, Silverstreet fully expects to continue its aggressive and rapid expansion within the Asian and African markets. 

Silverstreet partners with Tranglo to expand in International Airtime Services

August 19th, 2010

Silverstreet, a Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier, today announced that they will introduce International Airtime services in Europe. With these Airtime Services, Silverstreet enables European residents and migrants to purchase prepaid reload vouchers for an existing network of Mobile Operators comprising countries worldwide. The introduction of these services is a result of a partnership with the Asia based company Tranglo, the developer of the service.
Airtime Services have proven to be a true value added service to (Virtual) Mobile Network Operators and their distributors. In Asia, Africa and the Americas, Airtime Services are already part of everyday usage, covering millions of transactions a day. While the focus for Airtime to date has been towards international credit transfer, one of the driving forces behind the Silverstreet approach will be to extend this service to meet the desire of mobile subscribers to transfer credits domestically as well.
“Silverstreet Airtime Services offer great benefits to prepaid users worldwide as this service is fast, easy and reliable. It is a convenient way of transferring money in terms of Airtime to the ones you love living abroad, thus keeping them connected at all time”, says Silverstreet Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Simon Landsheer.
“Tranglo is delighted to cooperate with Silverstreet for the Airtime services in the European market. With our respective domain knowledge and experience – we are confident to make huge positive impact to the market for our Airtime service”, says Tranglo Chief Operating Officer Mr. Sia Hui Yong.
Silverstreet appointed Mr. Dick Dekkers as its European Business Development Manager for the Airtime Services. Mr. Dekkers will be based in the headquarters in The Netherlands, from where he will be spearheading Silverstreet’s expansion into the European continent for the Airtime business.
Mr. Dekkers is highly experienced within the mobile industry. Amongst others, he has previously worked for Golden Bytes where he operated in the European market within the fields of Premium SMS, IVR and mobile concepting.
About Silverstreet:
Silverstreet, founded in 1999, is a privately funded global specialist in Mobile Messaging (SMS) and mobile communications as a whole offering a range of termination paths available from its vast network of MNO partners. Through the company offices in Netherlands, South Africa, Malaysia,  the Philippines and Australia Silverstreet aims to continue providing its existing client base with a high end service as well as growing its foundation within the Value Added Service and Mobile Operator spheres.
About Tranglo:
Tranglo is a leading international mobile financial transaction hub operator enabling cross border Airtime exchange, money transfer and bill payment via its award winning innovative solutions gloTransfer and gloReload. With global coverage including main emigrants countries such as India, China and Phillipines, and reach over 1 billion subscribers, gloTransfer and gloReload are key value added services for mobile operators enabling migrant subscribers to send Airtime back home easily, instantly and secure. For more info on Tranglo, please visit www.tranglo.com.
For further information contact:

Silverstreet BV
Mr. Simon Landsheer
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 13 4690886
E-mail: press@silverstreet.com
www.silverstreet.com

Silverstreet announces expansion into Africa

March 8th, 2010

Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier Silverstreet today announced the appointment of Mr. James Bayhack as its Business Development Manager.
Mr. Bayhack will be based in Cape Town, South Africa from where he will be spearheading Silverstreet’s expansion into the African continent for existing business and for new services that are presently under development.
Africa is an emerging market for mobile with real opportunity for accelerated growth, Mr. Bayhack’s extensive mobile knowledge as well as ten years experience in the telecommunications industry is expected to greatly compliment the existing Silverstreet presence in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.

 

“Africa fits perfectly in our strategy to open local offices in emerging and developing markets, and I expect a substantial contribution from this new business unit in our overall company performance” says Silverstreet Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Simon Landsheer.

 

About Silverstreet:
Silverstreet, founded in 1999, is a specialist in Mobile Messaging (SMS) offering global MT termination options (covering more then 800 networks) and focusing specifically on mission critical traffic and high volume (wholesale) clients.

Our footprint is global. Next to our global reach with standard MT messages we have coverage with Premium SMS in 32 countries and always expanding. Currently Silverstreet employs 37 people, and has reached a volume of over 2 billion SMS messages in 2009.

Silverstreet is a privately funded company independent of outside investment, and financing it’s own expansion.
For further information contact:
Silverstreet BV
Mr. Simon Landsheer
tel: +60193317092
e-mail: press@silverstreet.com
www.silverstreet.com

Silverstreet announces expansion into the Philippines

March 3rd, 2010

Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier Silverstreet, which recently announced its expansion into Asia and Australia, today announces the establishment of a local office in Manila Philippines.

The Manila office will be headed by Mr. Edgardo (Egay) R. Bautista who recently joined Silverstreet as Country Advisor for Philippines. Egay has extensive experience in the Telco business spanning almost 30 years in both fixed and mobile services. Over the last 5 years he has been working as President and CEO of Infocom Technologies, a leading ISP in the Philippines.
Joining Egay in the Manila office is Mr. Jose Luis Junio who will be operating as Business Development Manager. They will both pursue the expansion of Silverstreet business’ in the Philippines, Japan and South Korea.
The primary focus of the office will be to offer sales support services to clients in the Philippines and the surrounding region.
Silverstreet will initially offer its bulk SMS MT business in the Philippines but may eventually offer its premium services as well thus enabling customers in the Philippines to fully benefit from Silverstreets Premium and Standard messaging connectivity in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Also, Silverstreets overseas customers can benefit from the Premium and Standard connectivity being established in the Philippines.
“Philippines is one of the biggest markets in the world for SMS messaging, with our recent expansion into various markets we simply couldn’t be missed in this region. I’m confident that we are able to expand this base via the dedication and expertise of our local Manila team” says Silverstreet Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Simon Landsheer.
About Silverstreet:
Silverstreet, founded in 1999, is a specialist in Mobile Messaging (SMS) offering global MT termination options (covering more then 800 networks) and focusing specifically on mission critical traffic and high volume (wholesale) clients. 

Our footprint is global. Next to our global reach with standard MT messages we have coverage with Premium SMS in 32 countries and always expanding. Currently Silverstreet employs 37 people, and has reached a volume of over 2 billion SMS messages in 2009.

Silverstreet is a privately funded company independent of outside investment, and financing it’s own expansion.
For further information contact:
Silverstreet Philippines
Mr. Simon Landsheer
50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
tel: +60193317092
e-mail: press@silverstreet.com

Silverstreet joins Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)

November 12th, 2009

Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier Silverstreet has announced its official entry as the newest member of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF).

As a member of MEF, Silverstreet joins a high-class range of leading global companies who are working to deliver mobile telecommunications guidelines, services and applications to mobile telecommunications operators and their customers. So as to solidify its own position and assist with the progression of MEF, Silverstreet aims to become an active member in both the EMEA and Asian chapters. 

Silverstreet mobile solutions are already driving the adoption of many developed and emerging mobile operators by enabling the rapid development of a new phase in its mobile messaging platform with targets of catering more than 10 billion messages in 2010 which is more than five times the growth rate of 2009.
“I strongly believe our business can only multiply if we share,” said Mr. Simon Landsheer, Chief Commercial Officer of Silvertreet BV. “Silverstreet will be an asset to the forum given our global mobile knowledge and network”.

Establishing membership in MEF formalizes Silverstreets’s ongoing commitment to driving further innovation in the mobile telecommunications industry. Silverstreet currently offers mobile messaging services that include complex functions like traffic management, Quality of Service and Service Level Agreement (SLA) to government agencies, Mobile Network Operators, corporate level entities, non-profit organizations and aggregators.

 

“Participation in MEF enables Silverstreet to gain early insight into the mobile telecommunications requirements for mobile applications and services,” said Mr. Bas Peters, Chief Technology Officer at Silverstreet BV. “Understanding these requirements will drive Silverstreet’s research and technology development, enable application developers to deliver highly-innovative products to our customers.”

 

About Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)
The Mobile Entertainment Forum was formed in 2000 to represent companies throughout the entire mobile entertainment value chain. As the global trade association of the mobile media industry, MEF works on behalf of its diverse membership to drive mobile entertainment adoption, shape regulation and deliver competitive advantage to its members.
With global headquarters in London, a Hollywood-based Americas secretariat, an Asian chapter in Singapore and the newly expanded EMEA branch, MEF’s network of members represents a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of mobile entertainment businesses and entrepreneurs. For more information and a full list of members please visit:
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Silverstreet announces Asia Pacific expansion

September 21st, 2009

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.