Contract win with operator in

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Synchronica PLC

08 July 2009

 



Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

Contract win with operator in Latin America

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email and data synchronisation provider, announces it has concluded a contract with an undisclosed mobile operator for an initial 50,000 user license of its award winning mobile email product Mobile Gateway. In addition a customisation package was ordered. The contract is Synchronica's third mobile operator win in Latin America.

The operator plans to use Synchonica's Mobile Gateway technology to offer a push mail and mobile synchronisation service to customers starting from August 2009. Synchronica's technology does not require an 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. 

This contract is the second win through Synchronica's strategic distribution partner, Brightstar Corp, a global leader in customised distribution and integrated supply chain solutions for the wireless industry.

About Mobile Gateway 

For Smartphones and mid-range feature phones, Mobile Gateway provides push email and synchronisation services using industry standards Push IMAP and SyncML without requiring additional software clients to be installed on the handset. 

For entry-level handsets, Mobile Gateway provides email-to-SMS, email-to-MMS gateways and Push-to-WAP browser access - ideal for emerging markets, where PC-based access is limited and entry-level devices dominate. Users of entry-level handsets can send and receive emails as a standard SMS or MMS; their replies are then converted back to email. 

Mobile Gateway also includes a document transcoding engine, which allows a variety of attachments, such as Word and PDF documents, to be displayed on mass-market phones. The transcoding engine also optimizes images for display on a mobile phone, thereby reducing bandwidth requirements. 

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, "Mobile operators are looking to maximise user revenues by targeting additional data services not just on high-end phones but also on mass market mobile handsets. Mobile Gateway does exactly this and more operators are now turning to us to offer these additional services to their customers, to help reduce churn, attract new customers and to drive additional revenues."

Enquiries:

Synchronica plc www.synchronica.com	Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO  Angus Dent, CFO,  Nicole Meissner, COO,	[phone] [phone] [phone]
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  About Synchronica 

Synchronica plc develops and markets mobile email and synchronization solutions for mobile operators and device manufacturers. Products include the award-winning push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway, and the device backup solution Mobile Backup. Based on industry-standards, Synchronica can reach the built-in email and synchronization clients of more than 2 billion mobile devices on the market today. 

Service providers in emerging and developed markets use Synchronica products to offer mobile email, PIM synchronization, and backup and restore services to consumer and business subscribers. Synchronica Mobile Gateway 4 offers a comprehensive multi-protocol mobile email solution introducing Email-to-SMS and Email-to-MMS as well as Push-to-WAP gateways. 

Headquartered in England, Synchronica has a development centre in Germany and presences in the USA, Hong Kong, 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.

 

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