15th Oct 2007 07:00
Synchronica plc, (AIM: SYNC.LN), the mobile synchronisation anddevice management company, is pleased to announce that it has signed acontract with a subsidiary of one of the largest mobile operatorgroups in the Middle East and Africa region, to licence its MobileGateway and Mobile Manager Backup & Restore products. £ Under the contract Synchronica will receive a licence fee of US$400,000 for 200,000 user licences for Synchronica Mobile Gateway 3.0,which offers subscribers push e-mail and contacts, calendar, task andnotes synchronisation, as well as 100,000 licences for SynchronicaMobile Manager Backup & Restore product, which provides back-up andrestore capability. Synchronica will also receive US$ 100,000 forprofessional services, customisation and implementation. £ The subsidiary with more than 3 million subscribers is the firstsubsidiary of the wider group to license the Synchronica products. Thegroup has more than 32 million subscribers and operates across 21countries in the Middle East and Africa. This contract isSynchronica's first deal in the region, which according to Informa isthe fastest growing mobile market in the world.* £ Synchronica's Mobile Gateway has a unique "zero footprint"architecture, which requires no software installation behind thecorporate firewall or on the handset, and can be used on bothSmartphones and, more importantly, on mass market feature phones.Synchronica believes that this translates into a compelling advantage,in particular in emerging markets where the vast majority of devicesare feature phones. £ Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica said: "This deal marksanother important breakthrough for Synchronica, and validates ourstrategy of targeting network operators in emerging markets, wheremobile operators have the opportunity to make the mobile phone theprimary device for accessing the Internet. This market is booming atpresent and Synchronica is very confident that this important stepinto the Middle East and Africa will be the first of many." £ *Informa 2007: Middle East and Africa Mobile Opportunities andForecast. £ About Synchronica £ Synchronica plc develops and markets industry standardsynchronisation and device management solutions for mobile operators,device manufacturers, and enterprises. Its product portfolio rangesfrom data synchronization (DS) to device management (DM) and firmwareupdate over the air (FOTA). Products include the mobile devicemanagement suite Mobile Manager and the Push Email and synchronizationsolution Mobile Gateway. Headquartered in the UK with a developmentcentre in Germany, and offices in Hong Kong, US and Dubai. Synchronicaplc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London StockExchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available atwww.synchronica.com. £ About Synchronica Mobile Gateway £ Synchronica's Mobile Gateway is a carrier-grade middlewaresolution providing push e-mail and synchronisation services. Based onthe open industry standards SyncML and IMAP, Mobile Gateway iscompatible with a wide range of mobile devices from leading devicemanufacturers, such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and Apple,without requiring additional client software to be installed on thedevice or behind the firewall. Today more than 400 device models and1.3 billion devices support the industry standard. £ Synchronica offers Mobile Gateway to operators, devicemanufacturers, and enterprises, enabling their mobile users to sendand receive email from consumer mailboxes (AOL, Gmail, and others), aswell as to synchronise their calendar and contact data with businesssystems like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun JavaCommunications Suite. Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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