UK-based Synchronica announced on Monday that Costa Rican operator, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) launched its push email services in the country based on Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway solution.

The service has been named Syncronizate and will be bundled with ICE’s existing webmail service, Acelera. Syncronizate will be offered free of charge to Acelera and GPRS subscribers.

Oscar Arias, Director, Services Division at ICE, commented, “For a push Email service to succeed in Costa Rica it needs to be affordable and to work on any handset, from high-end Smartphones down to entry-level devices. Synchronica’s solution ticked both boxes and we’re excited to be launching our cost-effective Syncronizate push Email and mobile synchronization service to all of our subscribers.” 

Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, added, “Mobile operators are looking at data services to shore up declining revenues caused by falling voice tariffs. We are finding that a growing number of mobile operators from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America are turning to Synchronica Mobile Gateway as a solution. Mobile Email has proven to be a very appealing data service, which can help to reduce churn and improve ARPU. Mobile Gateway provides push Email on literally all handsets, enabling operators to extend data services successfully to the mass-market.”