The Tunbridge Wells, UK-based company said this will enable carriers to offer mobile synchronization, enabling users to receive corporate email on their iPhones without having to ask an IT manager to open the firewall or install additional software. Synchronica said it delivers emails directly to the built-in email client on iPhone.

Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway already enables synchronization with both smartphones and mass-market feature phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and other leading manufacturers.

It said analysts at visiongain forecast 36 million consumer mobile email accounts by 2008, with the figure rising to 184 million by 2012.