M&A Deal Summary

Artilium Acquires Talking Sense Networks

On July 1, 2015, Artilium acquired communications company Talking Sense Networks

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Artilium’s 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Artilium’s 3rd transaction in Belgium.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-07-01
Target Talking Sense Networks
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Artilium
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Talking Sense Networks

Leuven, Belgium
Talking Sense is a VoIP telecom operator with a growing B2B customer base. VoIP allows you to make free, or very low cost, telephone calls over an IP data network (or internet) and is growing strongly in the business market. The VoIP services offered by Talking Sense allow customers to conduct very low cost phone calls and offer high levels of flexibility to businesses through its integrated cloud telephony (hosted PBX) solutions.

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Buyer

Artilium

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Information Technology
Revenue 10M EUR (2016)
DESCRIPTION

Artilium is a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) through its own state of the art Cloud platform. The company provides a branded mobile offering complete with sim cards & control panel. ARTA is the real-time Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) software of voice, text and 3G/4G data services, VoIP, mobile payments, etc. for telecom and virtual operators.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 10
Sector: Communications M&A 1 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 10
Country: Belgium M&A 3 of 5
Year: 2015 M&A 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-06-02 SpeakUp BV

Antwerp, Belgium

SpeakUp is a VoIP telecom operator with a rapidly growing B2B customer base. VoIP allows you to make free, or very low cost, telephone calls over an IP data network (or internet) and is growing strongly in the business market. The VoIP services offered by SpeakUp allow customers to conduct very low cost phone calls and offer a high level of flexibility to businesses through its integrated cloud telephony (hosted PBX) solutions. SpeakUp is also a Microsoft LYNC (now Skype for Business) certified trunk supplier which is an attractive additional service to Microsoft users.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-07-06 bliep

Amsterdam, Netherlands

bliep is a virtual mobile network operator offering daily flexible subscriptions focussed on the younger generation of mobile users in the Netherlands. These daily bundles are simple and flexible and can be switched on a daily basis, offering tariffs from 0 to €0.5 per day.

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