Saturday, 4th October 2008
The Vodafone Blackberry is in town
Vodafone Malta launched its Blackberry packages yesterday and is expecting to see everyone carrying the US multifunctional gadget soon.
"We want to see everybody in Malta with a Blackberry in their hands," Vodafone's southern Europe director general Larry Bensadon said at the launch yesterday.
The tiny, multimedia smartphone, was developed in Canada and has taken the globe by storm. The gadget incorporates, in a small body, both a hand-held computer which can access internet and e-mail and a mobile phone.
The phone will be on sale from Monday.
The company will be offering three packages with two different smartphones: The Blackberry Curve 8310 and the BlackBerry Pearl 8110.
The Blackberry enterprise server package is aimed at corporate clients, the Blackberry professional software, for growing businesses and the Blackberry internet service for smaller businesses and individual users.
"We are confident that the Blackberry solution will provide our customers with the necessary tools to stay in touch with colleagues, friends and family from wherever they are," Vodafone Malta CEO Inaki Berroetta said.
The Blackberry internet service is designed for smaller businesses and individuals, allowing customers to access up to 10 supported corporate and personal e-mail accounts (including popular ISP e-mail accounts such as Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail).
The Blackberry enterprise server package is "targeted specifically for organisations that manage their own e-mail servers" and the Blackberry professional software is for growing businesses that want a mobile solution and "manage their own e-mail servers and have up to 30 mobile employees".
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Vodafone have a rate as you pay for usage only but i do not recommend this as the rate per byte is dependent on the applications being downloaded . Not knowing the size of the files can be risky as this can be cheap at one end and quite costly if the file is large . This is why Vodafone offer a flat monthly fee for local usage.
In regard to the Vodafone staff not being up to scratch on the latest offers and promotions at the the Valletta event you have got a point . The staff should be able and have been trained to give and entertain an enquiry about blackberry .
At what point do we not pay our sales staff enough to promote the full product range. What if I was a local CEO or CTO requesting a personal tariff, as well as enquiring as to corporate rates for my 50+ employees? Are we that narrow minded as to not put our best people (let me rephrase, our most informed people, as these people did try their best) in a well positioned situation where our marketing money is going to a public event on the eve of a launch of a new product??????
What a prophecy, for crying out loud what happened to the 199 dollar I phone? if you want us to have a blackberry in our hands reduce the 20 euro charge for connection to internet, makeit free and charge for downloads only.
Vodafone, GO, Melita... Get with the program and re-evaluate your offerings before launching these services. People are still worried when using POP3 or Push Email on their phones.