Airwide Solutions was a privately held United States

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-based mobile messaging and wireless internet infrastructure company. It was acquired by Mavenir Systems in May 2011.

The company was founded in 2004 through the merger of Taral Networks and Schlumberger

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's Messaging Solutions unit, formerly Sema Group

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. Airwide acquired Finnish company First Hop in 2007.

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

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