Breakthrough into ME & Africa

Synchronica PLC
15 October 2007



15 October 2007


                                Synchronica plc
                        ("Synchronica" or "the Company")

       Synchronica Wins Contract for Mobile Gateway and Back Up & Restore

  Agreement with subsidiary of major network operator marks breakthrough into
                             Middle East and Africa


Synchronica plc, (AIM: SYNC.LN), the mobile synchronisation and device
management company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with a
subsidiary of one of the largest mobile operator groups in the Middle East and
Africa region, to licence its Mobile Gateway and Mobile Manager Backup & Restore
products.

Under the contract Synchronica will receive a licence fee of US$ 400,000 for
200,000 user licences for Synchronica Mobile Gateway 3.0, which offers
subscribers push e-mail and contacts, calendar, task and notes synchronisation,
as well as 100,000 licences for Synchronica Mobile Manager Backup & Restore
product, which provides back-up and restore capability. Synchronica will also
receive US$ 100,000 for professional services, customisation and implementation.

The subsidiary with more than 3 million subscribers is the first subsidiary of
the wider group to license the Synchronica products. The group has more than 32
million subscribers and operates across 21 countries in the Middle East and
Africa. This contract is Synchronica's first deal in the region, which according
to Informa is the fastest growing mobile market in the world.*

Synchronica's Mobile Gateway has a unique "zero footprint" architecture, which
requires no software installation behind the corporate firewall or on the
handset, and can be used on both Smartphones and, more importantly, on mass
market feature phones. Synchronica believes that this translates into a
compelling advantage, in particular in emerging markets where the vast majority
of devices are feature phones.

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica said: "This deal marks another
important breakthrough for Synchronica, and validates our strategy of targeting
network operators in emerging markets, where mobile operators have the
opportunity to make the mobile phone the primary device for accessing the
Internet. This market is booming at present and Synchronica is very confident
that this important step into the Middle East and Africa will be the first of
many."


*Informa 2007: Middle East and Africa Mobile Opportunities and Forecast.


Enquiries:

Synchronica plc
Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO                    [phone]
                                             [phone]
Angus Dent, CFO                              [phone]
                                             [phone]
Nicole Meissner, CMO                         [phone]
                                             [phone]
Seymour Pierce
David Newton                                 [phone]
Parimal Kumar                                [phone]

Corfin Communications
Ben Hunt, Harry Chathli                      [phone]


About Synchronica

Synchronica plc develops and markets industry standard synchronisation and
device management solutions for mobile operators, device manufacturers, and
enterprises. Its product portfolio ranges from data synchronization (DS) to
device management (DM) and firmware update over the air (FOTA). Products include
the mobile device management suite Mobile Manager and the Push Email and
synchronization solution Mobile Gateway. Headquartered in the UK with a
development centre in Germany, and offices in Hong Kong, US and Dubai.
Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London Stock
Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available at www.synchronica.com.

About Synchronica Mobile Gateway

Synchronica's Mobile Gateway is a carrier-grade middleware solution providing
push e-mail and synchronisation services. Based on the open industry standards
SyncML and IMAP, Mobile Gateway is compatible with a wide range of mobile
devices from leading device manufacturers, such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson,
Motorola, and Apple, without requiring additional client software to be
installed on the device or behind the firewall. Today more than 400 device
models and 1.3 billion devices support the industry standard.

Synchronica offers Mobile Gateway to operators, device manufacturers, and
enterprises, enabling their mobile users to send and receive email from consumer
mailboxes (AOL, Gmail, and others), as well as to synchronise their calendar and
contact data with business systems like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and
Sun Java Communications Suite.








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