BT to Offer Blackberry In Europe
BT reinforced its presence in the mobile market by signing an agreement with Research In Motion (RIM) to become Europe's first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) to sell the BlackBerry(R) wireless solution.
The deal will enable BT to offer BlackBerry to its corporate customer base, building on BT's success in the business mobile market and extending the benefits currently available to BT's mobile customers. The BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds(TM) will be co-branded by both BlackBerry and BT.
Developed and manufactured by RIM, BlackBerry offers BT's customers secure, always-on, wireless access to their corporate email and data, via an advanced BlackBerry handheld with integrated phone, text messaging, browser, calendar and organizer capability. The BlackBerry always-on 'push' technology also means customers don't have to periodically connect to their email to check for new messages; messages are automatically routed to the handheld. BT is initially offering the BlackBerry 7230(TM) and BlackBerry 7730(TM) handhelds.
For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server(TM) software tightly integrates with Microsoft(R) Exchange or IBM Lotus(R) Domino(TM) (Novell GroupWise expected to be available later this year) and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based, wireless access to email and other corporate data.
Source: press release
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