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Synchronica PLC

06 August 2010

 

6 August 2010

Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

Latin American Operator Launches Synchronica's MessagePhone™

Synchronica plc, the international provider of next-generation mobile messaging services, announces that a 20 million subscriber subsidiary ("the Operator") of a Latin American mobile operator has launched the MessagePhone™. The handset is bundled with Synchronica Mobile Gateway and a mobile Instant Messaging service using technology that was acquired by Synchronica from Colibria, as announced on 26 April 2010.

The MessagePhone, announced on 19 February 2010, is a low-cost messaging-oriented handset optimized for use with Synchronica Mobile Gateway, and provides affordable push email, synchronisation and mobile Instant Messaging services. MessagePhone also provides the user with a full HTML web browser and access to many popular social networking sites.

The Operator, a subsidiary of one of the region's largest mobile operator groups, launched MessagePhone simultaneously with the Synchronica instant messaging service which is also made available to a wide range of 3rd party handsets.

Combined, the services will play an important part in allowing the operator to expand their current portfolio of messaging products with an innovative end-to-end solution. MessagePhone services are offered at less than US$15 per month to the subscriber. The launch will be supported by a mass-market advertising campaign targeted at consumer and business users.

Carsten Brinkschulte, Synchronica's CEO commented: "With a growing customer base that desires cutting-edge services, Latin America is one of our most exciting markets. Many subscribers in the region do not have access to fixed-internet services and instead rely on their mobile phones for online communications. The launch of the MessagePhone, which is powered by our award winning Mobile Gateway and Instant Messaging service, will cost-effectively satisfy this demand."

 

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 is a leading developer of next-generation mobile messaging solutions based on open industry standards. The award-winning product portfolio includes the flagship product Mobile Gateway, providing push email, synchronization, instant messaging (IM), backup and restore, and mobile connectivity to social networks. Synchronica's products are white-labeled and offered by mobile operators in emerging and developed markets to provide mass market messaging services, increasing data revenues and reducing churn.

Synchronica Mobile Gateway provides a unique multi-protocol gateway combining Push IMAP, SyncML, ActiveSync, Email to MMS, and Email to SMS, delivering push email and synchronization to literally any mobile phone currently in the market without requiring an additional client to be downloaded. Expanding instant messaging to mobile devices, Mobile Gateway establishes operator-branded IM communities, using the industry standard XMPP and provides gateways to popular internet IM communities, connecting any IMPS-enabled handset.

Headquartered in England, Synchronica also maintains a development center 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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