Belfast, UK – 1 August, 2012  Aepona announced today that its Network as a Service (NaaS) solution has been chosen by US mobile operator Cricket Communications (www.mycricket.com), a leading provider of unlimited wireless services.

Cricket will use Aepona’s NaaS solution to attract application developers and content providers to their network, enabling the creation of a wide variety of exciting, differentiated applications and services, and allowing Cricket to utilize its network, billing and informational assets in new and innovative ways. The NaaS solution is based on Aepona’s API Monetization Platform (AMP), deployed as a hosted, fully managed service.

Aepona will also support Cricket in developer marketing, recruitment and onboarding via its Application Ecosystem Program, which is aimed at helping Aepona’s Service Provider customers reach out to the developer community to better understand their needs and to market the benefits of adding mobile network capabilities to their apps.

Kevin Wagner, Aepona’s SVP & GM, Americas Sales, commented: “We are very excited to be extending our existing relationship with Cricket towards a fully-fledged NaaS solution, helping them utilize their core network assets and open up new channels to market through partnerships. We look forward to closely working with Cricket in making their NaaS offering a success”.