Contract win with fourth Afri

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Synchronica PLC

02 November 2009

 



Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

Contract win with fourth African operator

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email and data synchronisation provider, announces that it has signed a contract for US$ 270,000 with a Southern-African mobile operator for an initial 100,000 user license for its award winning mobile email product Mobile Gateway, as well as a contract for ongoing professional services.

The mobile operator is part of a larger group ("the Group"), which has several operations in Central Africa. As mentioned in the announcement on the 23 October, Synchronica has been in discussions with several subsidiaries of the Group and this is now the third order from a subsidiary of the Group. This is the fourth deal for Synchronica in this region this year and the 11th operator contract announced by the Company in 2009. 

The operator will use Synchronica's Mobile Gateway technology to offer a push email and 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, "Our fourth customer win in the fast growing emerging Africa telecommunications market shows the attractiveness of our offering in regions where PC ownership is low and where operators can offer email and mobile synchronisation direct to customers with any type of handset, particularly to those with the most basic mobile phones. Operators in Africa have the opportunity to establish the mobile phone as the primary device for mobile Internet access, and Synchronica provides a key component to turn this vision into reality."

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	Ben Knowles	[phone] [phone] [e-mail]

  About Synchronica

Synchronica plc is a 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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