Contract win with third Afric

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Synchronica PLC

23 October 2009

 



Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

Contract win with third African operator

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email and data synchronisation provider, announces that it has received a purchase order for US$ 101,400 from a North-African mobile operator for installation of its award winning mobile email product Mobile Gateway and an initial 10,000 user license , as well as a contract for ongoing professional services.

The mobile operator is part of a larger group which has several operations in Central Africa. The order is the second order from a subsidiary of the group ("the Group"), the third deal in this region in 2009 and the 10th operator contract announced by the Company in 2009. The Company is in discussions with several subsidiaries of the Group and expects to make further announcements in due course.

The operator will use Synchronica's Mobile Gateway technology to offer a push mail and mobile synchronisation service to its subscribers. Synchronica's industry-standard technology requires no additional software client to be downloaded to the handset and enables push email for the broadest range of handsets, from high-end Smartphones to low-cost entry level devices. 

According to an Ernst & Young study (Africa Connected: A telecommunications growth story), the African telecommunications market is expected to grow faster than any other region over the next three to five years and with a compound annual growth rate since 2002 of nearly 50% it is a key growth market. Market penetration of mobile phones in Africa has now reached 37% and is expected to rise to more than 60% by 2012. 

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, "Key to our success in Africa, as well as other fast growing emerging markets, is the technical advantage of our products which enables operators to address the entire range of handsets, from high-end Smartphones to the most basic phones, helping them to reduce churn, attract new customers and drive additional revenues across the entire user base."

Enquiries:

Synchronica plc www.synchronica.com	Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO  Angus Dent, CFO,  Nicole Meissner, COO,	[phone] [phone] [phone]
FinnCap	Charles Cunningham	[phone]
Walbrook PR Ltd	Paul McManus	[phone] [phone] [e-mail]

  About Synchronica

Synchronica plc is the leading developer of industry-standard mobile push email and synchronization solutions. The award-winning product portfolio includes the flagship email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway, and the device backup solution, Mobile Backup. Mobile operators in emerging and developed markets use Synchronica's white-labelled products to offer their consumer and business subscriber's mobile email, PIM synchronization, and backup and restore services. 

Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides a unique multi-protocol gateway combining Push IMAP, SyncML, Email-to-MMS and Email-to-SMS, delivering push email and synchronization to literally any mobile phone currently in the market today. The device backup solution Synchronica Mobile Backup, also based on industry-standards, reaches the built-in synchronization clients of more than 2 billion mobile phones worldwide, without requiring an additional client to be downloaded.

Headquartered in England, Synchronica also maintains a development centre in Germany, in addition to a regional presence in the USA, Hong Kong and Dubai. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.L). For further information please visit www.synchronica.com.

 

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