Telenor and RIM jointly announced the BlackBerry solution to Telenor customers in Norway. Telnor subscribers are now offered with some of the best features of smartphones, software and services put together.
The BlackBerry solution makes wireless access to email, phone, calendar, web, multimedia and other business and lifestyle applications effortless. With this application consumers can avail of freedom and productivity benefits offered by BlackBerry smartphones. Users can easily access information and stay in touch with their closed ones.
Abraham Foss, Vice President and CMO, Telenor Norwayremarks, “We are happy that our customers can now enjoy the benefits of the Blackberry solution. This complements our extensive product offering to our international customers.”
At the onset, Telnor would provide services to smartphones like BlackBerry Curve 8310, BlackBerry Pearl 8110 and BlackBerry Bold. These handsets offer outstanding communications and multimedia functionalities. They also comprise of GPS for location-based applications and services.
Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, RIM commented, “It is with great pleasure that we are working with Telnor to bring the BlackBerry solution to their customers in Norway. BlackBerry smartphones are the right choice for business people and consumers who want to make the most of their time and who wish to stay connected to colleagues, friends and family while on the move.”
The BlackBerry Bold has a stylish design and is packaged with versatile features and capabilities. The BlackBerry Curve 8310 is built with a full-QWERTY keyboard and offers a compact design. The elegant BlackBerry Pearl 8110 is an ideal handset for users who wish to explore the features provided by the BlackBerry platform.
Telenor has come up with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for corporate customers and organizations that administer their own email servers. This software tightly integrates with IBM, Lotus, Domino, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise. Further it provides secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data with the help of advanced encryption and IT policy controls.
The price of the application is not known.