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Synchronica wins contract with second African operator

Synchronica plc, the AIM listed mobile email and data synchronisation provider, announces that it has received a purchase order for US $ 248,000 from a second North-African mobile operator for an initial 70,000 user license of its award winning mobile email product Mobile Gateway.

The order follows on from the 20,000 user license with another North-African mobile operator, announced on 30 July 2009, which has now been deployed. This is the second order received through the same major network equipment provider, demonstrating the effectiveness of the strategy to use channel partners to drive roll-out to the widest possible number of territories and network operators.

The operator will use Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway technology to offer a push mail and mobile synchronisation service to its subscribers. Synchronica’s 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.

A recent report by ABI Research suggests that by 2014 the volume of mobile data sent and received every month by users around the world will significantly exceed the total data traffic for the whole of 2008. According to Ernst & Young, the African telecommunications market is expected to grow faster than any other region over the next three to five years and with a compound annual growth rate since 2002 of nearly 50% it is a key growth market.

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, “This deal once again validates our strategy of using major network equipment providers to scale our business on a global basis and reach as many countries and operators as possible. Our award-winning Mobile Gateway product is increasingly recognised by operators as an invaluable tool to attract new customers, drive additional revenues and reduce customer churn. Because our product works across the entire range of handsets, operators can introduce data services to the mass-market and is particularly attractive in fast-growing emerging markets like Africa.”