Vodafone goes into own-brand mobile email

RIM and Microsoft still ever present

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Vodafone has announced a revamp of its mobile email portfolio.

Vodafone, which picked Visto for its mobile email provider earlier this year, has launched the offering under the name of Vodafone Business Email.

This, according to the operator, means it is the first UK operator to be offering its own brand service. While the operator has already launched the service in other European countries, the service was delayed in the UK while Vodafone conducted some country-specific customisation.

Vodafone's own brand offering will sit alongside RIM's BlackBerry Connect service and Microsoft Exchange email product, with direct push functionality to be added next year.

Vodafone is also rolling out some extra support services to go with its email product, including over-the-air device wiping and configuring functionality.

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  1. 1. Kenny Macleod

    It's interesting how Blackberry is always being discussed and Microsoft gets a side mention but I've heard very little about how it's possible to have true email push from a simple IMAP mailbox. (requires "Idle" which is usually already enabled).

    A palm PDA connected to GPRS (best is Treo650) and an email app like ChatterMail gives perfect performance without extra contracts and proprietory phones. It simply uses the data bundle from my service provider AND I still get full use of the Palm OS.

    http://www.chatteremail.com/

    I moved from IMAP to MS Exchange which also works well.

    Note: I'm a very happy user not a vendor

    • 28 November 2005 13:44
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