Mobilitec, Inc. is a private software company headquartered in San Mateo,

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. The company was acquired by

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in 2006.Lucent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Mobilitec, a Leading Provider of Content Delivery and Management Software

History

Founded in 2000 by

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i developers Dr. Ophir Holder (CEO), Yoad Gidron (CTO) and Haim Teichholtz (VP Engineering), the company provides wireless carriers with software platforms for management and delivery of mobile content services, including mobile-phone games,

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, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia, Orange and Hong Kong Telecom (

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), to name a few. Mobilitec’s mPower platform was the first product of its kind to be commercially deployed in 2001, and as of 2006, is the most commercially deployed product of its kind in the industry. In addition to the

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, Mobilitec currently has global offices in

(

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organization (R&D, delivery, and technical support) is based in

, account management and sales at the worldwide offices, and the majority of its management team is based in

. Among its investors and shareholders prior to its acquisition were AIG,

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executives.

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{{reflist Companies based in San Mateo, California Telecommunications equipment vendors Networking software companies Electronics companies of Israel Companies based in Haifa Defunct software companies of the United States

History

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