Global Communications Solutions Provider Damovo Acquires PABX Business From Telstra

Added: (Wed Nov 14 2001)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Three months after being spun out of Ericsson Enterprise Solutions’ Direct Sales and Service Operation, Damovo has today announced that it has acquired Telstra’s PABX maintenance business in Australia, for an undisclosed sum.

The purchase is a key move for Damovo, reflecting the company’s vendor Independent status. Almost three hundred multi-vendor staff and 5000 customers will be joining Damovo in Australia as a result of the acquisition, augmenting the skill set and increasing the annual revenue by 50%.

“The Telstra acquisition represents a perfect fit with our global objective of being the worlds’ leading and independent provider of integrated communications solutions,” said Pearse Flynn, Damovo CEO. "Damovo’s services range from the planning and design, to the implementation and management of voice, data and mobility solutions, utilising best of breed technology. This move will add to our multi vendor competence, whilst significantly expanding the size of our operation in Australia”

Damovo’s Australian Managing Director, Adrian Jensen added, “through our network integration experience we will be able to add value to a large number of customers with multi-branded PABX’s as well as implementing a migration path to evolve customer’s PABX systems to high capacity integrated network solutions”.

Telstra and Damovo have committed to working together through the transition period to ensure that there is no disruption to any of the customer’s business.

Stuart Lee, Executive Director of Voice and Commercial, Telstra, welcomed the news:

“We are confident that Damovo will continue to service customers PABX Systems in a highly competent manner. We look forward to working with Damovo to ensure that the business is smoothly transferred”

About Damovo

Damovo was launched in September 2001 following Apax Partner’s investment of US$480 million for 80% of Ericsson Enterprise direct sales and service operations.

Through consultancy, integration and management, Damovo delivers advanced business solutions in the following areas: e-business, voice and data converged networks, managed services, mobility and contact centre solutions.

Damovo is one of the world’s first global and independent communication solutions providers.

Damovo employs 2,700 staff, with an annual turnover of nearly €1bn and 18 offices worldwide across Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Damovo has a blue chip client list of over 21,000 international organisations from the worlds of Government, Banking, Public Services, Utilities, and Healthcare.

Principal territories for Damovo are: Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy and the UK. In addition Damovo has operations in Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and Venezuela.

Contact Details for Damovo

For further details please contact Richard Cook or Sandrine Frimpong on +44 (0) 207 229 8827 or e-mail mailto:richard.cook@biggroup.co.uk / mailto:Sandrine.Frimpong@biggroup.co.uk