RIM and Alcatel-Lucent joins Alfa to provide BlackBerry solution in Lebanon
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Lebanese mobile operator Alfa, managed by Orascom Telecom’s launched the BlackBerry solution for Alfa customers in Lebanon along with Alcatel-Lucent and Research in Motion.
BlackBerry® smartphones like the BlackBerry® Boldâ„¢ 9000 smartphone and the BlackBerry® Curveâ„¢ 8900 smartphone; along with unlimited1 MB for BlackBerry® Service local usage is offered by Alfa to its customers.
Users of the Alfa mobiles can enjoy various features like easy, wireless access to email, phone, calendar, web, multimedia and a range of other business and leisure applications. Subscribers also get an added incentive from Alfa which is offering one month’s free subscription with BlackBerry Internet Service to the first buyers of any BlackBerry® smartphone.
According to Samer Salameh, CEO of Alfa, the joint effort of the company with Alcatel-Lucent and RIM is focused on providing exceptional service to the customers. The strong local presence of Alcatel-Lucent and RIM will provide an edge to Alfa to implement, launch, deliver and support services for the BlackBerry solution in the Lebanese market.
Mobily, EMS and RIM announce plans to launch BlackBerry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
RIM is the developer of the proven and popular BlackBerry wireless platform. EMS is a Dubai-based mobile systems integrator and provider of wireless handheld business solutions with offices in Saudi Arabia.
BlackBerry is a comprehensive wireless solution with advanced security features that provides mobile professionals with wireless access to email, phone, internet, SMS, organizer and corporate data applications from a single device. BlackBerry empowers the mobile workforce and can deliver a significant return on investment.
Mobily will be the first service provider to introduce the BlackBerry wireless platform in the KSA and EMS will assist Mobily in launching, delivering, supporting and selling the BlackBerry solution to its customers. Together, EMS and Mobily will address the Saudi market by delivering a suite of applications on BlackBerry to Mobily’s customers.
At launch, Mobily will offer BlackBerry Enterprise Serverâ„¢ and the BlackBerry 8700gâ„¢ handset to corporate customers. The BlackBerry 8700g operates in conjunction with BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which tightly integrates with Microsoft® Exchange, Novell® GroupWise® and IBM Lotus® Domino® and works with existing enterprise systems, to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.
The BlackBerry 8700g provides exceptional performance together with an intuitive user experience. Mobily customers will be able to use the quad-band handset on Mobily’s network in the KSA as well as more that 47 countries through more than 87 global roaming relationships. In fact, selected top Saudi corporates are already testing BlackBerry from Mobily in an exclusive pilot program.
‘We are very excited to launch BlackBerry from Mobily in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The market has definitely developed and is now ripe and ready to optimise all the BlackBerry offerings,’ said Derek Roga, Chief Executive Officer, EMS.
‘With more than 5 million subscribers, BlackBerry continues to gain traction around the world. We are pleased to be extending the availability of BlackBerry into new markets and look forward to launching with Mobily and EMS in the KSA,’ said Charmaine Eggberry, Vice President and Managing Director of EMEA at Research in Motion.
Source- http://www.ameinfo.com
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