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Wireless Office
01 July 2002
Getting the habit for e-mail on the move
Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile wireless division is hoping to persuade a potential market of 18,000 companies in Germany to spend at least €4,400 each on a server to allow their employees to communicate via BlackBerry hand-held devices.
That €4,400 is just the start. It is the cost of an in-house BlackBerry server which connects with an existing office e-mail system and routes messages to and from the remote devices — which themselves cost €599 each when connected to T-Mobile's GSM network.It's the latest development in a worldwide trend to use existing mobile infrastructure to offer customers e-mail on the move. Nextel in the US already offers a version of the BlackBerry for its proprietary mobile technology, and both mmO2 and Vodafone have also launched the product in the UK."We want to mobilise corporate applications," said Martin Witt, head of mobile business solutions for T-Mobile in Germany. His company is looking for...
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