Business News of Monday, 14 January 2008
Source: DMAsia
MTN and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the launch of the BlackBerry solution for mobile subscribers in Ghana.
The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and services to allow easy access to e-mail (including attachment viewing), phone, calendar, web, multimedia and thousands of other business and lifestyle applications for people on the move.
At launch, MTN will offer the BlackBerry Curve 8300 smartphone, the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 smartphone and the BlackBerry 8800 smartphone.
Customers will be able to utilize both BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service through the MTN network.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software integrates with IBM Lotus Domino,Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise and works with existing enterprise systems to enable push-based wireless access to e-mail and other corporate data.
For individuals and smaller businesses, BlackBerry Internet Service allows users to access up to ten supported corporate and personal email accounts (including ISP e-mail accounts) from a single device.