Contract win in Pakistan

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Synchronica PLC

01 September 2009

 



Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

 Pakistan contract win

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email and synchronisation provider, announces it has signed a contract with a mobile operator ("the Operator") in Pakistan for an initial 50,000 user license of its award winning mobile email product Mobile Gateway. The Operator has issued a purchase order worth US $ 121,500 for the initial user license and has also ordered professional services for US $29,750. 

The Operator has more than 20 million subscribers in Pakistan, a market Synchronica sees as having large growth potential for its technology. According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, in July 2009 Pakistan mobile subscriber base reached a total of 95 million, with a penetration rate of 58% up from 39% at the end of 2007.

The Operator will use Synchronica's Mobile Gateway to offer a push email and mobile synchronisation service to its subscribers. Synchronica's technology is well-suited for the Pakistani market as it 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. 

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, "We are very pleased with this new contract win as we feel there is very good potential for further demand from the Operator and also from the wider Asian market. This contract and our recent wins in Africa and South America illustrate that operators in emerging markets are increasingly using Mobile Gateway as a way to address declining average revenue per user (ARPU) and to combat churn by introducing an addictive data service to the mass-market."

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 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. 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 users.

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.L). More information is available at www.synchronica.com.

About Mobile Gateway 

Synchronica Mobile Gateway v4 provides a comprehensive multi-protocol mobile email solution. 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. 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, extending the reach to literally any mobile phone - 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. 

 

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