HONG KONG, 19 DECEMBER 2008 – Vietnam was offered the BlackBerry wireless solution yesterday.
Customers of Viettel, Vietnam’s mobile and telecommunications provider in Vietnam, will be able to wirelessly send and receive e-mails using BlackBerry smart phones, and can make phone calls, browse the Internet, send text messages and access corporate and lifestyle applications. The offer was jointly presented by Viettel, Alcatel-Lucent and Research In Motion (RIM).
Initially, Vietnam will have the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 and the BlackBerry 8700 and the BlackBerry Curve 8320 smart phones. While corporate customers are offered the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, smaller businesses and individual users will have the BlackBerry Internet Service.
Organisations can manage their own e-mail servers with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The software is said to integrate with IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise, and use advanced encryption and IT policy controls to enable secure, push-based wireless access to e-mail and other corporate data.
Customers of smaller businesses and individuals can leverage the BlackBerry Internet Service to access up to 10 supported corporate and personal e-mail accounts (including the most popular Internet service provider e-mail accounts such as Yahoo Mail and Google Mail) from a single device.
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Under the terms of a distribution agreement between Alcatel-Lucent and RIM, Alcatel-Lucent provides global integration services, leveraging its strong local presence in the region to provide Viettel with end-to-end implementation, launch, delivery and support services for the BlackBerry solution in the Vietnamese market.
While Alcatel-Lucent will provide assistance in managing delivery of the solution, technology integration and deployment, Viettel will focus on the delivery of customer facing services to quickly meet market demand.
Vietnam is getting the full suite of mobile business and consumer services through Viettel. With the BlackBerry solution, customers can wirelessly access e-mail and other Internet and Intranet-based applications in business communications.
“More and more clients in Vietnam would like to get easy access to their e-mails and calendar information when they are on the move and enjoy other advanced communications and multimedia features,” said Tong Viet Trung, general director Viettel Telecom.
“We are the first mobile operator in Vietnam to offer our customers this secure, efficient and effective service, which has already become a hit among businesses users and individuals around the world,” Tong said.
