Press Release
February 5, 2003
Vodafone expands range of services for business customers with BlackBerry®
E-mail, diary appointments and calls on the move with BlackBerry™ from Vodafone
Maastricht - From today, Vodafone offers its business customers even more convenience with BlackBerry™ from Vodafone. With the BlackBerry® wireless communication platform, a combined handheld computer and mobile telephone, business customers automatically receive their e-mail and can make mobile calls whilst browsing through their electronic calendar. When abroad, Vodafone's business customers can use BlackBerry in a large number of European countries including Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Making mobile calls, e-mailing and organising
BlackBerry from Vodafone is a component of Vodafone Mobile Office, an umbrella of user-friendly mobile services that Vodafone offers its business customers, which includes for example the recently introduced Vodafone Remote Access. The addition of BlackBerry from Vodafone to the product portfolio is a result of Vodafone's focus on the development and marketing of attractive mobile solutions that meet customer needs, increasingly taking a much more customer centric approach.
BlackBerry from Vodafone includes a user-friendly wireless handheld computer and mobile telephone all in one. Thanks to the clear icons on the display and the integrated keyboard (including trackball) Vodafone business customers are on-line 24 hours a day ('always on') enabling them to access their corporate e-mail and electronic calendar wherever and whenever they want. It couldn't be easier for business customers to use the new mobile service, BlackBerry from Vodafone. Just a minor addition to the company network and on the end user's desktop computer is all that's required to ensure that e-mail messages are automatically forwarded. BlackBerry is developed and manufactured by Research in Motion (RIM) and used by thousands of organisations in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific including government bodies and large corporations.
More information about BlackBerry from Vodafone, how to use Vodafone services abroad and rates can be found at www.vodafone.nl
Vodafone
Vodafone is the second-largest mobile telecommunications firm in the Netherlands, and forms part of the international Vodafone Group PLC, the largest telecommunications company for mobile telephony in the world. Vodafone has 107.5 million customers in 28 countries worldwide. Since 15 June 1999, Vodafone Libertel N.V. has been quoted on the official market of Euronext Amsterdam.
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