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Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading cellular services providers, along with Research In Motion (RIM) a global leader in wireless innovation, today announced the launch of BlackBerry service plans for its prepaid customers in India. With the new prepaid tariffs, Vodafone customers will now have the flexibility to choose from daily, three day, weekly and monthly offers. Vodafone's BlackBerry smartphone customers on the new prepaid service plans can enjoy unlimited access to email, BlackBerry Messenger, instant messaging, social networking and Internet browsing, as well as access to the BlackBerry AppWorld™ application store, at a pocket friendly price starting at Rs. 15 per day.

The launch of Vodafone's BlackBerry prepaid service plans reiterates Vodafone’s promise to make mobile Internet browsing more attractive and economical to all its customers, especially the upwardly mobile youth and enterprising women of today. This service will enable them to do much more on their mobile phones at attractive prices ranging from Rs. 15 per day to Rs. 399 per month. Customers can also access as many as ten supported email accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Google Mail™ and chat on popular services including Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger. As an additional customer benefit, BlackBerry smartphones can display messages from multiple mailboxes in a single inbox and support the viewing of email attachments including  Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt), Microsoft Excel (.xls), and Adobe pdf (.pdf) documents, as well as image files (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif, .tiff).

Vodafone BlackBerry Prepaid Plans: Plan Tariff
Daily Plan - Rs. 15
Three-Day Plan - Rs. 44
Weekly Plan - Rs. 100
Monthly Plan - Rs. 399

Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Vodafone Essar Ltd. "We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of BlackBerry service plans for our prepaid customers. This segment is highly cost conscious and through the democratization of data services, we are providing an entry threshold at an accessible price point of just Rs. 15 per day. We believe that this initiative will appeal to young professionals, students and a broad spectrum of retail customers who are looking for an exceptional experience for messaging, social networking, email, music and entertainment – on the go! RIM is known for its exceptional mobile communications and strong business reputation and we are delighted to continue our long term alliance. We are certain that our prepaid customers will benefit from the compelling functionality of the BlackBerry solution that’s delivered across our reliable and extensive network in India.”

Frenny Bawa, Managing Director, India, Research In Motion said. “RIM is delighted to work with Vodafone to introduce smart and flexible BlackBerry service plans for prepaid customers in India. Vodafone's prepaid customers will now be able to stay connected with friends, family and colleagues around the world.”

Vodafone's prepaid customers can now access information and connect within 30 minutes of notifying Vodafone customer care on their choice of the Vodafone BlackBerry prepaid service plan.

Courtesy: Research In Motion

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Posted by Naresh Koshti on 24 July, 2010 12:42:40 PM IST #