Friday, November 04, 2011
SafeLinQ Global Partnership
Artilium Plc (AIM:ARTA) ("Artilium"), the AIM-quoted provider of innovative Telecommunications Software and Solutions, is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with SafeLinQ International BV ("SafeLinQ") that enables the formation of a global partnership to jointly deliver innovative Location Based Services.
SafeLinQ is one of the fastest growing providers of location based technology in the world. SafeLinQ is active in 12 different countries worldwide and cooperates with amongst others KPN Mobile, Telefonica, Etisalat, Group4Securicor, Securitas and ADT. Originating as a Dutch company, SafeLinQ is headquartered in Utrecht, The Netherlands and has sales branches in The Netherlands, Spain, The United Kingdom and South Africa.
Artilium and SafeLinQ plan to work together to integrate Artilium’s Location Based Services platform ("ARTA Presence") with SafeLinQ’s award winning SaaS platform. As a result, customers will benefit from the existing SafeLinQ services and devices, with enhanced positioning capability.
Commenting on the new partnership, Peter CA de Jong, Executive Director of Artilium, said:
“As a leading global provider of innovative telecommunications software and solutions, SafeLinQ International is a great partner for Artilium in expanding our ARTA Presence solutions in the market. Today’s announcement is another important step forward in Artilium’s strategy of leveraging strategic partners to drive our product growth. We look forward to expanding our joint collaboration with SafeLinQ over time to bring additional Artilium solutions to customers.”
Martijn van Bree, CEO of SafeLinQ, added:
“Our partnership with Artilium expands our leadership in the Location Based Services arena and will help us better address our customers’ positioning challenges. Artilium’s technology will allow us to now enable our services on virtually any GSM handset in the world, whilst at the same moment we can provide enhanced positioning information to our existing customers utilizing SafelinQ handsets. The Artilium technology will allow us and our distribution partners to address new areas in the eHealth, Consumer Safety and Mobile asset protection market. Our Mobile Operator partners can, by adding the Artilium platform to the existing infrastructure, address new verticals utilizing customers’ existing GSM handset.
For further information contact:
Artilium PLC
+32 50 230 300
Adriaan Reinders, Executive Chairman
Peter CA de Jong, Executive Director
Arbuthnot Securities
+44 20 7012 2000
Antonio Bossi
Ed Groome