Press Release
April 30, 2003
Telefónica Movistar Launches BlackBerry to Provide Corporate Customers with Wireless Email/Data/Phone Applications
BlackBerry®, developed and built by Research In Motion (RIM), is an end-to-end secure wireless data/voice platform for corporate customers comprised of hardware, software and service operating on the Telefónica Móviles GPRS network
Madrid, Spain - Telefónica Móviles España (TME), Telefónica Móviles Group's operator on the Spanish market, today unveiled BlackBerry® from MoviStar, a new wireless platform which provides companies with secure, always-on mobile email/data access and phone capabilities via BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds™.
BlackBerry from MoviStar is a unique, push-based e-mail solution with single-mailbox integration with Microsoft® Exchange and IBM Lotus® Domino™ corporate email systems. In addition to email, the BlackBerry handheld enables users to organize their calendars and address books while mobile. The Java-based BlackBerry handheld has a large screen and a full QWERTY keyboard, making text-messaging and other data applications easy to use. It also features a browser which allows access to WML web sites including TME's intrawap and MoviStar e-moción and has the ability to make voice calls and send and receive SMS.
The overall BlackBerry solution also includes BlackBerry Enterprise Server software, installed alongside the company email system behind the corporate firewall, and desktop software for the user's PC. The handheld and server software, developed and built by RIM, and the GPRS network infrastructure, belonging to Telefónica Móviles, have been optimized to provide end-to-end security of information and communications. BlackBerry uses Triple DES encryption, which encrypts messages at all points between the handheld and BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
With BlackBerry, users can automatically receive emails via their handhelds, any time and anywhere, regardless of whether or not their PC is switched on. Customers will be able to write new emails, reply to or forward messages they receive, or call meetings.
The launch of BlackBerry is the result of an agreement announced in January 2003 between TME and RIM, to market the BlackBerry wireless platform in Spain as part of Telefónica Móviles España's corporate data service, Oficina MoviStar.
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