Sinch AB, a cloud communications for mobile customer engagement provider, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Inteliquent, an independent voice communications provider, for $1.14 billion.
Inteliquent focuses on cloud communications, collaboration, unified communications and contact centers and will boost the Sinch Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) offering. The acquisition is the company’s fifth in the last year.
Inteliquent powers voice communications for communication service providers and enterprises in North America. Its API-offering enables businesses to acquire phone numbers and embed voice calling into their own products or business processes. It handles more than 300 billion minutes of voice calling per year and has registered more than 100 million active phone numbers.
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of the year.
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