Paris – Groupe Outremer Telecom (FR0010425587 – OMT), the leading alternative telecom operator in the French Overseas Regions (FOR), and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a global leader in mobile communications, today launched the BlackBerry® solution for Outremer Telecom customers in Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Reunion and Mayotte.
The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and services to allow easy wireless access to industry-leading email and messaging, social networking, phone, organizer, web, multimedia and other mobile business and lifestyle applications. Outremer Telecom customers will now be able to enjoy the freedom and productivity benefits of using BlackBerry smartphones to stay connected while on the go.
Outremer Telecom will initially offer the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 and BlackBerry® Curve™ 3G smartphones, as well as several BlackBerry service plans.
Jean-Michel Hégésippe, Chairman and CEO of Outremer Telecom said, “We are very pleased to partner with RIM to introduce the BlackBerry solution to our customers with very attractive offers. BlackBerry smartphones will allow our customers to easily stay in touch with the people and information that’s most important to them and access information quickly and efficiently no matter where they are through our enhanced 3G+ high speed network”
“We are pleased to work with Outremer Telecom to bring the BlackBerry solution to customers in French Overseas Regions,” said Christophe Lefort, Managing Director for France at RIM. “The BlackBerry solution is the gold standard for mobile communications and will appeal to both business users and consumers in these markets.”
For more information on BlackBerry smartphones and service plans from Outremer Telecom, please visitwww.only.fr or www.outremer-telecom.fr
About Outremer Telecom
Founded in 1986, Groupe Outremer Telecom has established itself in the French Overseas Regions (Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Reunion and Mayotte) as the leading alternative telecom operator able to offer a full range of fixed line, mobile and Internet access services for both residential and business customers. Groupe Outremer Telecom has developed its own telecom network and has a single brand. The group intends to develop the convergence of its various offers, its business customers and pursue its innovative and competitive services.