Synchronica plc, the international provider of next-generation mobile messaging services, has grown its customer base to 60 mobile operators after its successful acquisition of competitor iseemedia, and group-wide framework agreement with a pan-African operator group.

Synchronica has currently deployed its solutions to 31 mobile operators, and once all 60 are delivered, Synchronica’s messaging solutions will be available to just over 990 million end-users worldwide.

Amongst the new customers are live installations with two of the largest mobile operators in India. With over 670 million mobile phone users, India is the world’s second largest mobile market, and according to data recently released by the country’s regulator, India connects approximately 10 million new users each month. The largest mobile phone group in the country believes that it is possible that the country will see more than one billion mobile users by 2015.

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, comments, "In June we announced that we had signed our fortieth mobile operator customer. I’m thrilled that in less than five months, we’ve been able to grow this to sixty, and that we’ve been breaking into the fast-growing mobile market of India and expanding our leading position in Africa. The acquisition of iseemedia and our recent group-wide agreement with a pan-African operator group has propelled Synchronica to a leading position in the market of next-generation mobile messaging in emerging economies. Following the current deployment phase, we are going to be focussed to expand the take-up rate of our solutions in the installed base."