21st Apr 2005 12:00
Vodafone Group Plc21 April 2005 21 April 2005 PUSH EMAIL FROM VODAFONE Vodafone today announces the roll out of push email, a service providingreal-time, secure and remote access to email, contacts and calendar direct to arange of business-focused mobile devices. New email, calendar appointments and contact details are automatically 'pushed'to the customer's selected device and updates made on the device areautomatically reflected on the customer's PC. In addition, customers can chooseto download email attachments in popular office formats, including MicrosoftWord, Excel, Powerpoint and Adobe PDF. Vodafone's research shows business customers have different mobile email accessrequirements, depending on the size and type of the organisation. The Vodafonepush email service caters for all business IT environments, with an Enterpriseversion for companies wishing to provide access to their employees, a DesktopRedirector version for people who use their own mobile equipment at work and anISP version for sole traders or small businesses. During the launch phase, the range of devices that support the push emailservice will include the Vodafone v1620, the Motorola MPx220, the Nokia 6630 andthe Sony Ericsson P910i. Additional devices that support push emailfunctionality will be introduced into the range in the coming months. "Vodafone intends to offer the best and easiest to use mobile email services forour business customers," said Peter Bamford, Chief Marketing Officer atVodafone. "Vodafone push email means more customers can now mobilise their businesses andbenefit from greater business productivity and responsiveness whilst on themove. Customers can choose the mobile email solution that complements their ITsystem, whilst enabling mobile email users and Company IT Managers to select thedevice that meets their needs." The push email service is currently available from Vodafone Germany, VodafoneGreece, Vodafone Italy, SFR (France) and Elisa (Finland). Vodafone Spain islaunching the service today with additional Vodafone markets launching pushemail over the course of this year. ends NOTES TO EDITORS The Vodafone push email service supports both Microsoft(R) Exchange Server(R)*and IBM (R) Lotus Domino (R)* systems, as well as POP3 ISP email accounts. (*Available on the enterprise and Desktop Redirector versions only) For further device information and images please visit: www.vodafone.com/media/push For further information: Investor RelationsCharles ButterworthDarren JonesSarah MoriartyTel: +44 (0) 1635 673310 Media RelationsJon EarlJanine YoungTel: +44 (0) 1635 673310 Tavistock CommunicationsLulu BridgesTel: +44 (0) 20 7920 3150 About Vodafone Vodafone is the world's largest mobile community with 151 million proportionatecustomers, equity interests in 26 countries and Partner Networks in a further 14countries. For further information about Vodafone, please visit the VodafoneGroup website: www.vodafone.com (c) Vodafone Group 2005. Vodafone is a trade mark of the Vodafone Group. Otherproduct and company names mentioned herein may be the trade markets of theirrespective owners. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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