15th Oct 2007 07:01
Synchronica PLC15 October 2007 15 October 2007 Synchronica plc ("Synchronica" or "the Company") Synchronica Wins Contract for Mobile Gateway and Back Up & Restore Agreement with subsidiary of major network operator marks breakthrough into Middle East and Africa Synchronica plc, (AIM: SYNC.LN), the mobile synchronisation and devicemanagement company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with asubsidiary of one of the largest mobile operator groups in the Middle East andAfrica region, to licence its Mobile Gateway and Mobile Manager Backup & Restoreproducts. Under the contract Synchronica will receive a licence fee of US$ 400,000 for200,000 user licences for Synchronica Mobile Gateway 3.0, which offerssubscribers push e-mail and contacts, calendar, task and notes synchronisation,as well as 100,000 licences for Synchronica Mobile Manager Backup & Restoreproduct, which provides back-up and restore capability. Synchronica will alsoreceive US$ 100,000 for professional services, customisation and implementation. The subsidiary with more than 3 million subscribers is the first subsidiary ofthe wider group to license the Synchronica products. The group has more than 32million subscribers and operates across 21 countries in the Middle East andAfrica. This contract is Synchronica's first deal in the region, which accordingto Informa is the fastest growing mobile market in the world.* Synchronica's Mobile Gateway has a unique "zero footprint" architecture, whichrequires no software installation behind the corporate firewall or on thehandset, and can be used on both Smartphones and, more importantly, on massmarket feature phones. Synchronica believes that this translates into acompelling advantage, in particular in emerging markets where the vast majorityof devices are feature phones. Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica said: "This deal marks anotherimportant breakthrough for Synchronica, and validates our strategy of targetingnetwork operators in emerging markets, where mobile operators have theopportunity to make the mobile phone the primary device for accessing theInternet. This market is booming at present and Synchronica is very confidentthat this important step into the Middle East and Africa will be the first ofmany." *Informa 2007: Middle East and Africa Mobile Opportunities and Forecast. Enquiries: Synchronica plcCarsten Brinkschulte, CEO +44 (0) 1892 552 799 +44 (0) 7977 256 406Angus Dent, CFO +44 (0) 1892 552 760 +44 (0) 7977 256 347Nicole Meissner, CMO +44 (0) 1892 552 780 +44 (0) 7977 256 412Seymour PierceDavid Newton +44 (0) 20 7107 8000Parimal Kumar +44 (0) 20 7107 8000 Corfin CommunicationsBen Hunt, Harry Chathli +44 (0) 20 7977 0020 About Synchronica Synchronica plc develops and markets industry standard synchronisation anddevice management solutions for mobile operators, device manufacturers, andenterprises. Its product portfolio ranges from data synchronization (DS) todevice management (DM) and firmware update over the air (FOTA). Products includethe mobile device management suite Mobile Manager and the Push Email andsynchronization solution Mobile Gateway. Headquartered in the UK with adevelopment centre in Germany, and offices in Hong Kong, US and Dubai.Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London StockExchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available at www.synchronica.com. About Synchronica Mobile Gateway Synchronica's Mobile Gateway is a carrier-grade middleware solution providingpush e-mail and synchronisation services. Based on the open industry standardsSyncML and IMAP, Mobile Gateway is compatible with a wide range of mobiledevices from leading device manufacturers, such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson,Motorola, and Apple, without requiring additional client software to beinstalled on the device or behind the firewall. Today more than 400 devicemodels and 1.3 billion devices support the industry standard. Synchronica offers Mobile Gateway to operators, device manufacturers, andenterprises, enabling their mobile users to send and receive email from consumermailboxes (AOL, Gmail, and others), as well as to synchronise their calendar andcontact data with business systems like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, andSun Java Communications Suite. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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