Claro Dominicana Launches Mob

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Synchronica PLC

27 October 2010

 



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Claro Dominicana Launches Mobile Email Service Using Synchronica Technology

Synchronica plc, the international provider of mobile Email and synchronization solutions, today announced that Claro Dominicana, America Movil´s Dominican Republic subsidiary, has launched a mobile Email and synchronization service based on Synchronica's award-winning Mobile Gateway messaging infrastructure.

The Claro Mail service is promoted to existing and potential Claro Dominicana customers.  Claro is a full service provider of telecommunication services and the largest in the Dominican Republic with currently more than 5 million customers. A key criterion for Claro in the selection of Synchronica's solution was its support for Email-to-SMS and Email-to-MMS messaging, which is most appropriate for the installed base of low-end handsets in the Dominican Republic.

With Synchronica Mobile Gateway, users of entry-level handsets send and receive Emails as a standard SMS or MMS; their replies are then converted back to email. Synchronica Mobile Gateway works on virtually every handset in the market today, from basic handsets right through to Smartphones, making it an ideal solution for mobile operators whose installed base comprises users with a diverse range of handsets. 

Lucía Guzmán, Mobile Solutions Director at Claro, commented: "Our promotion of a mobile email solution based on Synchronica's technology allows us to offer a mobile Email service to all of our subscribers, not just those with high-end phones. Being able to target our entire customer base with such a powerful yet affordable service made the decision to license Synchronica's software an easy one." 

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, added: "Our discussions with mobile operators such as Claro Dominicana tell us that mobile Email for the masses is already proving to be must-have for operators across the globe. People need to communicate, and in emerging markets, mobile Email is becoming the most efficient and least expensive way to do this."

Commenting on the Latin American market, Nick Jotischky, Principal Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media, said: "Mobile non-voice services, such as mobile Email, continue to grow and become more important to operator strategies in Latin America. This latest contract win for Synchronica in Latin America with its 'mobile Email for all' solution is a case in point. The size of the non-voice market grew by 38% in 2008 to reach US$11bn, of which US$4.5bn comprised the non-SMS data market. Indeed, the number of non-SMS data subscribers (GPRS, CDMA2000 1x and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO) was in excess of 25 million across the region at the end of 2008 accounting for an 18% rise during the year."

Enquiries:

Synchronica plc www.synchronica.com	Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO Angus Dent, CFO Nicole Meissner, COO	[phone] [phone] [phone]
finnCap	Clive Carver , Nomad Charlotte Stranner, Corporate Finance Stephen Norcross, Corporate Broker	[phone] [phone] [phone]
Walbrook PR Ltd	Paul McManus	[phone] [phone] [e-mail]

About Claro Dominicana

Claro is the only telecommunications full service provider in the Dominican Republic, with the largest and most efficient 3.5G network over which their customers are able to enjoy high-end handsets functionalities and innovative services such as video calls and broadband. It is also the only company that offers a digital television service over internet protocol in the country. More information available at www.claro.com.do

About Synchronica

Synchronica plc is a leading developer of next-generation mobile messaging solutions. Mobile Gateway, Synchronica's flagship product, provides push email, synchronization, instant messaging (IM), and social networking services to any mobile phone currently in use. Synchronica's patented transcoding engine uses advanced streaming to download email attachments and can dramatically reduce the consumption of network bandwidth by as much as 90 percent.

Mobile operators and device manufacturers from emerging and developed markets rely on Synchronica's white-labelled product for providing mass market messaging services across the entire customer base, diversifying revenues and reducing churn.

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

 

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