Seventh African Contract Win

Synchronica plc

('Synchronica' or 'the Company')

Seventh contract win in Africa

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email, instant messaging and data synchronisation provider, announces that it has received a purchase order for a 50,000 user license including hosting for a year, from a West-African mobile phone service provider for its award winning product Mobile Gateway.

The West-African provider is offering mobile services in collaboration with a 20 million subscriber mobile operator to a major religious community in the region with over 2 million members. Synchronica's Mobile Gateway will be offered to the community as part of a subscription providing push mail and mobile synchronisation services that can be used to exchange messages on religious topics.

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, "Our seventh client win in this region re-emphasises that Africa is a key emerging market for next-generation mobile messaging data services. Operators are looking for new initiatives to retain customers and to drive growth in this market and they have seen that our products can be used to connect religious communities and enable one-to-many and one-to-one communication about religious news, teachings and other related topics.

"As many subscribers in the region do not have high-end Smartphones our Mobile Gateway product is perfectly suited to ensure that these services can be offered across the entire spectrum of handsets including low-cost, entry-level devices."

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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, backup & 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's 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 carrier-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 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.