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Synchronica PLC
21 February 2008
21 February 2008
Synchronica plc
("Synchronica" or "the Company")
Synchronica signs second global agreement for Mobile Gateway within two weeks
New global reseller agreement for Mobile Gateway with one of the world's top
five IT services companies will further accelerate market penetration
Synchronica plc, the mobile email and synchronisation company, is pleased to
announce that it has signed a worldwide reseller agreement with one of the
world's top five IT services companies for its award-winning mobile push email
and synchronisation technology, Mobile Gateway.
The agreement takes the total number of distribution or licensing contracts
signed by the Company in the past six months to three. This deal is in addition
to an agreement announced on 6 February 2008 with Brightstar Corp, a global
leader in distribution and supply chain solutions for the mobile industry.
The latest deal establishes another channel and will help Synchronica to further
penetrate the global market for mobile email, which is expected to grow rapidly
over the next five years, led by the emerging markets. "All forecasts point to
emerging markets as the breakthrough area for mass market mobile email. The
number of mobile phone subscribers in developing countries has almost tripled in
the last five years, and they now account for more than 58 percent of
subscribers worldwide", Carsten Brinkschulte, Synchronica CEO, comments.
Under the terms of the latest deal, the global IT services and systems
integration company will market the mobile email and synchronisation product
Mobile Gateway as part of a standard solution to mobile network providers in
more than 40 countries worldwide. Synchronica will derive licensing fees based
on subscriber numbers.
Commenting on the agreement, Carsten Brinkschulte said: "Synchronica is building
strong momentum with major industry providers as mobile email becomes a mass
market application that can be used by anyone with access to a handset. Our
latest reseller agreement for Mobile Gateway is with one of the world's largest
and best known IT brands and a great endorsement for our product. With this
agreement we are further expanding our reach into the global market and laying
the foundation for long term growth."
Enquiries:
Synchronica plc Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO, +44 (0) 7977256 406
Angus Dent, CFO, +44 (0) 7977256 347
Nicole Meissner, CMO +44 (0) 7977256 412
Corfin Communications Neil Thapar, William Cullum +44 (0) 207 977 0020
Seymour Pierce David Newton, Parimal Kumar +44 (0) 207107 8000
About Synchronica Mobile Gateway
Synchronica's Mobile Gateway is a carrier-grade middleware solution providing
push email and synchronization services. Based on the open industry standards
SyncML and Push IMAP, Mobile Gateway is compatible with a wide range of mobile
devices from leading device manufacturers, such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson,
Motorola, and Apple, without requiring additional client software to be
installed on the device or behind the firewall. Today more than 400 device
models and 1.5 billion devices support the industry standard.
Synchronica offers Mobile Gateway to operators, device manufacturers, and
enterprises, enabling their mobile users to send and receive email from consumer
mailboxes (AOL, Gmail, and others), as well as to synchronize their calendar and
contact data with business systems like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and
Sun Java Communications Suite.
About Synchronica
Synchronica plc develops and markets industry standard mobile email and
synchronization solutions for more than 1.5 billion devices in the market today.
Mobile operators, device manufacturers and service providers in emerging and
developed markets use Synchronica products to offer mobile email, PIM
synchronization and backup & restore services to their consumer and corporate
customer base. Products include the push email and synchronization solution
Mobile Gateway and the device management suite Mobile Manager with the flagship
solution Backup & Restore. Headquartered in the UK with a development centre in
Germany and a presence in Hong Kong, Dubai, U.S. (North Carolina and California)
and Latin America. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of
the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available at
www.synchronica.com.
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