
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
Royal Tunbridge Wells, February 21, 2008. - Synchronica plc, the mobile email and synchronization 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 synchronization 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 synchronization 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."
About Mobile Gateway
Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade push email and synchronization services for virtually all mass market feature phones and smartphones being used by subscribers today. It is based on the dominant open industry standards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) for mobile email and SyncML (OMA DS) for contact and calendar synchronization and works with the built-in email and synchronization clients found in more than 1.5 billion phones. The new email-to-SMS functionality expands its reach to virtually every phone in use today. Serving consumers and prosumers, Mobile Gateway includes back-end support for POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, connecting to popular services, such as AOL or Gmail. For business users, it provides a unique zero footprint architecture where users simply register their devices and instantly start to receive corporate email on their phone, without requiring additional connectors behind the firewall. Business mailboxes supported include Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun Java System Communications Suite.
About Synchronica
Synchronica plc develops and markets industry-standard mobile email and synchronization solutions that work with the built-in email and synchronization clients of 1.5 billion mobile devices. The new email-to-SMS conversion brings mobile email to every mobile phone on the planet. Mobile operators, device manufacturers, and service providers in emerging and developed markets use Synchronica products to offer mobile email, PIM synchronization, and backup and restore services to their consumer and corporate customer base. Products include the push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway and the mass market device backup solution Mobile Backup. The headquarter is in England, the development center in Germany. With presences in the USA, Hong Kong, and Dubai. 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
For more information, please contact:
Nicole Meissner
Chief Marketing Officer
Tel.: +44 1892 552 780
Mobile: +44 7977 256 412
Fax: +44 1892 552 721
nicole.meissner@synchronica.com


