Synchronica Wins Second Nth African Mobile Email Contract

Mobile email and data synchronisation provider, Synchronica says that it has received a purchase order from an unnamed network operator for an initial 70,000 user license of its mobile email product Mobile Gateway. The order follows on from the 20,000 user license with another North-African mobile operator, announced last month, which has now been deployed.

This is the second order received through the same (also unnamed) network equipment provider.

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."

Posted to the site on 10th August 2009