Contract win

RNS Number : 5322C

Synchronica PLC

16 November 2009

 

16 November 2009

Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

Contract Win with Fifth African Operator

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email and data synchronisation provider, announces that it has received a purchase order for US$ 197,000 for an initial 20,000 user license from a West-African mobile operator for its award winning mobile email product Mobile Gateway, as well as a contract for professional services.

The order is the fifth deal in this region in 2009 and the 12th operator contract announced by the Company in 2009. This is the third order received through the same major network equipment provider, demonstrating the effectiveness of the strategy to use channel partners to accelerate the roll-out of Mobile Gateway.

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 a report from Blycroft Publishing, a UK-based telecommunications publisher, Africa's mobile phone market grew by 25% in 2008, attracting 74 million new subscribers and taking the total number of subscribers to 370 million mobile. Some of the factors that contributed to this growth, the study found, included the launch of 11 new networks in Ghana, Benin, Botswana, Congo Brazzaville, Guinea-Conakry, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan and Uganda. A further study from Ernst & Young (Africa Connected: A telecommunications growth story), indicates this trend shows no sign of waning, with expectations of the mobile phone penetration in Africa to rise from 37% today to more than 60% in 2012. 

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, "We are very pleased with the success of our strategy of using major network equipment providers to scale our business on a global basis to reach as many countries and operators as possible. Our fifth purchase order in this region demonstrates the attractiveness of our products for operators in emerging markets. By enabling operators to address the entire spectrum of handsets, our products allow them to attract new customers and introduce data services 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 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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