Spirent Communications, which provides test and measurement services to information technology and telecoms companies, has bought US-based Metrico Wireless.
Metrico Wireless helps mobile network providers and phone vendors check the quality of experience of mobile devices in the field.
The firm uses cloud-based solutions to provide feedback on voice, data, video, battery, location and application performance. It has operations in 25 countries and counts the top seven mobile networks in the US as customers.
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Spirent will pay $52m for the company which is expected to rack up revenues of between $26m and $28m in 2013.
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