Synchronica plc - Synchronica Signs Up Entel PCS as First Operator in Latin America

Synchronica plc, the all-embracing provider of adaptable email and synchronization solutions, has won a key arrangement in South America with arch Chilean adaptable abettor Entel PCS.

Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, January 27, 2009 -- Synchronica plc, the all-embracing provider of adaptable email and synchronization solutions, has won a key arrangement in South America with arch Chilean adaptable abettor Entel PCS. The agreement, Synchronica's aboriginal win in the region, will accredit Entel PCS to barrage a accumulation email band-aid alleged Email Movil to subscribers, an affordable burning email (push email) and synchronization account that works on a ample ambit of adaptable phones in use today.

Entel PCS has a 43.4 percent acquirement allotment of the adaptable bazaar in Chile [1] and about six actor subscribers. Synchronica's advance email and synchronization band-aid supports Entel PCS's declared aim of absorption added on value-added casework as a way of accretion all-embracing subscriber revenues and convalescent chump loyalty.

This acceding represents the aboriginal win for Synchronica's cardinal accomplice Brightstar. Brightstar was appointed in February 2008 to advance Synchronica Mobile Gateway in high-growth regions, such as Latin America.

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica comments: "The acceding with Entel PCS, a above amateur in the South American market, represents a key anniversary for Synchronica. By alms this avant-garde advance email account that works on about any handset, Entel PCS can advanced adaptable email acceptance rates, consistent in college ARPU over time."

Rodrigo Baudrand, Business Solutions Manager of Entel PCS adds: "We allotment a accepted appearance with Synchronica that value-added services, such as adaptable email, represent the approaching for our business. We are always analytic to accommodate our barter with life-enhancing value-added casework that accession ARPU and advance chump loyalty, and with the Synchronica Mobile Gateway we accept a simple and simple to use email band-aid that will advice us do just that."

According to a contempo address by IE Market Research [2], the akin of wireless assimilation in Chile will abide accretion to ability 103.2 percent during 2010. This will be the additional accomplished wireless assimilation akin in Latin America afterwards Argentina (108.9 percent during 2010). The amount of absolute subscribers in Chile will access from a projected 15.8 actor to 17.7 actor in the anticipation aeon 2008-2010.

[1] Source: IDC / Entel, September 2008
[2] Source: Research and Markets 2008: 2Q08 Chile Mobile Forecast, 2008-2010

Highlights:
* Key arrangement win for Synchronica in Latin America
* First arrangement win borne out of accord with cardinal accomplice Brightstar
* Entel PCS to barrage advance email account based on Mobile Gateway in Chile in Q1

About Entel PCS
With about six actor subscribers, Entel PCS leads the capital financial, brand, and account indicators in Chile and was awarded with the Frost & Sullivan cost for the Best Mobile Service Provider 2007 in Latin America. Entel PCS is allotment of Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones S.A., the better telecommunication aggregation in Chile that provides mobile, abstracts and IT, and internet services, bounded and long-distance telephony casework (together with accompanying services). Entel aswell has operations in Perú and is listed on the Chilean banal barter (Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago) beneath the ticker attribute ENTEL. Its address are amid in Santiago, Chile. More advice is accessible at www.entelpcs.cl

About Brightstar
Brightstar Corp. is a all-around baton in customized administration and accumulation alternation solutions for the wireless industry. Headquartered in Miami, Brightstar operates sales, distribution, and accomplishment accessories in 50 countries on six continents, accouterment the better all-around ability for its customers. Brightstar was called a Global Growth Company by the World Economic Forum, an absolute account of 142 companies accustomed for accepting abstracted and fast-growing businesses that accept aberrant controlling administration and are redefining their corresponding industries. The aggregation provides solutions to added than 30,000 arrangement operators, MVNOs, retailers, resellers, and absolute agents about the apple and aswell represents the world's arch wireless manufacturers. The aggregation exceeded USD 4.8 billion in gross revenues in 2007. For added information, amuse appointment www.brightstarcorp.com

About Mobile Gateway
Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade advance email and synchronization casework for around all accumulation bazaar affection phones and smartphones accepting acclimated by subscribers today. It is based on the ascendant accessible industry standards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) for adaptable email and SyncML (OMA DS) for acquaintance and agenda synchronization and works with the complete email and synchronization audience begin in added than 1.5 billion phones. The new email-to-SMS functionality expands its ability to around every buzz in use today. Serving consumers and prosumers, Mobile Gateway includes back-end abutment for POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, abutting to accepted services, such as AOL or Gmail. For business users, it provides a different aught brand architectonics area users artlessly annals their accessories and instantly alpha to accept accumulated email on their buzz after acute added connectors abaft the firewall. Business mailboxes accurate cover Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun Java System Communications Suite.

About Synchronica
Synchronica plc develops and markets adaptable email and synchronization solutions for adaptable operators and accessory manufacturers. Products cover the award-winning advance email and synchronization band-aid Mobile Gateway and the accessory advancement band-aid Mobile Backup. Based on industry standards, Synchronica can ability the complete email and synchronization audience of added than 1.5 billion adaptable accessories on the bazaar today. Service providers in arising and developed markets use Synchronica articles to action adaptable email, PIM synchronization, and advancement and restore casework to chump and business subscribers.

Synchronica afresh acquired AxisMobile and is set to become the arch amateur in accumulation bazaar adaptable email and synchronization middleware. The added Synchronica Mobile Gateway will action the a lot of absolute multi-protocol adaptable email band-aid in the bazaar today, introducing email-to-SMS and email-to-MMS, as able-bodied as WAP and XHTML gateways. Document transcoding will add the adeptness to affectation a ample array of attachments, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on accepted affection phones.

Headquartered in England, Synchronica has a development centermost in Germany and presences in the USA, Hong Kong, and Dubai. Synchronica plc is a accessible aggregation traded on the AIM account of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More advice is accessible at www.synchronica.com

Synchronica plc develops and markets adaptable email and synchronization solutions for adaptable operators and accessory manufacturers. Products cover the award-winning advance email and synchronization band-aid Mobile Gateway and the accessory advancement band-aid Mobile Backup. Based on industry standards, Synchronica can ability the complete email and synchronization audience of added than 1.5 billion adaptable accessories on the bazaar today. Service providers in arising and developed markets use Synchronica articles to action adaptable email, PIM synchronization, and advancement and restore casework to chump and business subscribers.

Nicole Meissner
Chief Marketing Officer
Synchronica plc
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Tel: +44 1892 552 780
Fax: +44 1892 552 721
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nicole.meissner@synchronica.com
www.synchronica.com