Airwide Solutions was a privately held (majority shareholder smac, partners Germany), but

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–based

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and wireless internet infrastructure company. It was acquired by

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in May 2011. The company was founded in 2004 through the acquisition of

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's Messaging Solutions unit, formerly

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by Taral Networks. Airwide later acquired Finnish company First Hop in 2007.

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, a test engineer at Sema at the time, sent the world's first

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message from an R&D lab using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset in December 1992. In 2008, Airwide Solutions won the gold award for innovation at the Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards. In May 2011, the company was purchased by Mavenir Systems, Inc. January 26, 2004, Taral Networks Acquires Schlumberger Messaging Solutions.

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