South African BlackBerry enthusiasts, RIM and partners have announced that the BlackBerry solution is now available across 8ta outlets in South Africa. As an incentive, users will get free mobile YouTube streaming of up to 500MB per month.
“We are pleased to work with 8ta to offer the BlackBerry solution to customers in South Africa,” says Deon Liebenberg, Managing Director for Africa at RIM. “BlackBerry smartphones deliver a powerful and unique mobile experience, allowing users to stay easily connected to people and information while on the move.”
At launch 8ta will offer the BlackBerry® Curve™ 3G and BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphones. Soon thereafter, the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 and BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphones will also be offered.
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8ta offers Free Mobile YouTube streaming on BlackBerry smartphones Free BlackBerry Internet Service for first three months on contract
Johannesburg, South Africa – 8ta and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of the BlackBerry® solution for 8ta customers with free mobile YouTube streaming of up to 500MB per month.
The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and services to allow easy wireless access to email, messaging, social networking, phone, calendar, web, multimedia and other business and lifestyle applications. 8ta customers will now be able to enjoy the freedom and productivity benefits of using their BlackBerry smartphone to stay connected to people and information while on the go.
At launch, 8ta will offer a free BlackBerry Internet Service subscription for the first three months for customers on Contract 1 with the BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone. At the end of the three months, 8ta customers subscribed to the hero deal will enjoy a further discounted BlackBerry Internet Service plan of R49 (incl. VAT) per month for the remaining 21 month duration of their contract. *
Amith Maharaj, Managing Executive of 8ta says: “It is our aim to shake up the market by offering simplicity and value to our customers. The BlackBerry solution offers the best of both worlds. We believe that the BlackBerry solution will help to ensure that our customers go beyond just using email and Internet on their smartphones. We also aim to enhance the offering with free mobile YouTube streaming, which is a first in South Africa.”
“We are pleased to work with 8ta to offer the BlackBerry solution to customers in South Africa,” says Deon Liebenberg, Managing Director for Africa at RIM. “BlackBerry smartphones deliver a powerful and unique mobile experience, allowing users to stay easily connected to people and information while on the move.”
At launch 8ta will offer the BlackBerry® Curve™ 3G and BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphones. Soon thereafter, the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9780 and BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphones will also be offered.
8ta will offer BlackBerry® Enterprise Server for corporate customers and BlackBerry® Internet Service for smaller businesses and individual users.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server is for organizations that manage their own email servers. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with IBM® Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft® Exchange and Novell® GroupWise® and uses advanced security and IT policy controls to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.
BlackBerry Internet Service is designed for smaller businesses and individuals. It allows customers to access BlackBerry data services including Internet and access to up to 10 supported corporate and personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail) from a BlackBerry smartphone.
Pricing
8ta’s special value added offering to all 8ta customers provides the choice to nominate one Telkom landline, which customers can make unlimited free calls to for 24 months; this offer is available to contract customers. 8ta Pre-paid customers receive free voice airtime for calls received on their 8ta number. 8ta further offers 50 free SMSs for every 5 SMSs sent on the same day to all customers.
All BlackBerry smartphones will be available on competitive Pre-paid, Contract and Saver options.*
All 8ta BlackBerry data packages will offer free mobile YouTube streaming of up to 500MB per month.
All other customers shall ascribe to the fees below in addition to the base plan fee:
BlackBerry Internet Service R 59.00 incl. VAT per month
BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service R 89.00 incl. VAT per month
* For additional details on 8ta’s BlackBerry product and service offerings, please visit www.8ta.com.
*Terms and conditions apply.
For more information on BlackBerry smartphones, visit www.blackberry.co.za.
Source: RIM