www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Kuwait Telecommunication Co. (VIVA), Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry® solution for VIVA customers in Kuwait. VIVA customers will now be able to enjoy the benefits of enhanced communications and increased productivity by using a Blackberry® smartphone to access email, browse the web, make phone calls, send and receive text and picture messages, run multimedia applications, as well as access a wide variety of other business and leisure applications on the move.

At launch VIVA will offer customers the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 and BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphones as well as service with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server and BlackBerry® Internet Service.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone is a communications and multimedia powerhouse. It is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi® (802.11 a/b/g).  The BlackBerry Curve 8900 packs a wide range of advanced communications and multimedia capabilities into a compact and stylish design – it is the thinnest and lightest full-QWERTY BlackBerry smartphone available. As with all BlackBerry smartphones, both handsets give users the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution together with access to a wide range of other mobile business and consumer applications.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server is for organizations that manage their own email servers. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® and uses advanced encryption and IT policy controls to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data. (more…)