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Optus today launched a package for the consumer and small business market that combined a Blackberry wireless e-mail offering with voice and mobile text messaging.The new offering bundles the Blackberry with an AU$99 capped payment plan that includes AU$500 worth of voice and text services and up to 50MB of data.
The fight for the small to medium business mobility market is heating up.Vodafone this morning cut the costs of its Blackberry handsets and mobile connect cards, announced a conditional offer of free Blackberry software or licences and offered a free second-month to new customers who joined its small-business-targeted plans.
Optus said today it had added the Blackberry wireless platform to its suite of business mobile e-mail products.Australia's number two telecommunications company said it would sell the BlackBerry 7230, the BlackBerry 7730 and the Nokia 6820 to corporate customers with a range of payment plans.
Research In Motion, which makes the popular BlackBerry pagers, beats estimates by 3 cents per share.
Subscribers to Research In Motion's wireless paging network who have been experiencing service interruptions since late last week should see the problem cleared up by the end of the day, according to the company. The problem that caused the systemwide interruption has been fixed, but subscribers may still be experiencing trouble, a RIM (rimm) technical support representative said Wednesday.
Telstra and Nokia have teamed up for a new BlackBerry-enabled Nokia handset that will provide users with access to an "always on" e-mail solution via a mobile phone.Telstra business and government mobile sales and solutions managing director, Murray Bergin, said this latest innovation and future devices would help boost up-take of the technology.
Research In Motion met loweredanalyst estimates in the first quarter.After market close Thursday, the provider of technologyfor wireless devices reported a fiscal first quarter netincome of $388,000, or break-even on a per-sharebasis.
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Telstra has made the wireless communications solution Blackberry available over its CDMA network, extending the service beyond its relatively limited GSM network.Telstra head of small business and CDMA Jenny Roche, said the telco giant's CDMA network has "twice the geographic coverage of any GSM network in Australia and covers more than 98 percent of the population, or more than 1.