CTIA WIRELESS, ORLANDO, Florida, March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Aepona, the market leader in Network as a Service (NaaS) solutions, and airG, the world's leading mobile social entertainment provider, today announced a partnership that will help Mobile Operators generate new revenues by combining airG's suite of mobile social entertainment applications with the mobile network and billing features made available by Aepona's platform.

The partnership marks the continued development of Aepona's Application Ecosystem Partner program, which is designed to connect in-market applications and developer communities to Aepona's Mobile Operator customers, creating immediate new revenue sources for operators and new routes to market for Aepona's partners.

Through the partnership, Aepona and airG will work together to identify new customers for mobile network-enabled social media applications.

"Working with Aepona allows airG to easily enhance the features of our social entertainment applications with mobile network capabilities such as location, messaging and real-time voice communications", said Vincent Yen, Co-Founder of airG. "The partnership provides us the ability to offer mobile operators not only a new set of applications for their customers, but the means for driving additional traffic to their network."

Kevin Wagner, Aepona's SVP of Corporate Marketing and Business Development, commented: "airG is one of the world's most successful mobile social entertainment companies, with more than 55 million unique users across 40 countries. This partnership means that Aepona can bring a large community of users to our mobile operator customers, and allow them to fully exploit the valuable assets they are exposing through our platform."