LINK Mobility Group Holding ASA (LINK) today announces the closing of the
acquisition of SMSPortal, a market-leading provider of A2P
(Application-to-Person) messaging services in South Africa, with substantial
international business.
Reference is made to stock exchange release on 24 June 2025 regarding the
agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in the privately owned SMSPortal. LINK
has today completed the acquisition of SMSPortal.
The purchase price has been settled by an upfront cash payment of USD 100
million financed with cash on hand and by LINK today having issued 5,854,230 new
shares to the sellers.
LINK will register the new share capital increase with the Norwegian Register of
Business Enterprises and issue a separate announcement when the registration of
the share capital increase has been completed.
Following registration of the share capital increase with the Norwegian Register
of Business Enterprises, the Company will have a share capital of NOK
1,529,504.84 divided into 305,900,968 shares, each with a nominal value of NOK
0.005.
For further information, please contact:
Morten Løken Edvardsen, CFO & VP Investor Relations
+47 90 56 15 89
ir@linkmobility.com
About LINK Mobility
LINK is an award-winning, leading global provider of mobile messaging and
communications platform as a service (CPaaS) solutions for increased engagement.
The company serves enterprise, SME and government customers. LINK offers a wide
range of innovative and scalable mobile solutions, creating valuable digital
convergence between businesses and customers, governments and citizens,
platforms and users. LINK has 60,000 active customer accounts globally and
exchanges 23 billion messages a year. LINK is listed on the Oslo stock Exchange
under the ticker LINK. For more information about LINK, please see
www.linkmobility.com and follow LINK Mobility on LinkedIn.
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.