A1 brings Nokia Messaging to consumers in Austria
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Vienna, Austria - Nokia and A1 today announced that A1 will begin
offering the new Nokia Messaging consumer email service to its
subscribers in Austria from May 2009. A1, part of mobilkom austria,
is the first operator in Austria to introduce the service, which
enables people to enjoy easy access to mobile email on their Nokia
devices.
As a special offer, the service and associated data plan will be free
of charge for a one month test period, after which the subscription
price will be 5 euros/month.
"A1 aims to make mobile applications easily available for our 4.5
million customers. We have constantly proven our know-how and
innovativeness with mobile email solutions. Now, we are delighted to
be in the frontline in bringing Nokia Messaging to Austria. As the
leading solution provider for mobile email in Austria we are again
delighting our customers with an attractive offer," said Dr. Reinhard
Zuba, Head of Marketing, mobilkom austria.
"With an extremely easy-to-use application that allows consumers to
access multiple email accounts on the same device, and an affordable
data plan, mobile email with Nokia Messaging has the potential to
become as popular as text messaging", said Greig Williams, Managing
Director, Nokia Alps South East Europe. "At the Mobile World Congress
in Barcelona in February we announced our strategy to make mobile
multimedia available for everyone. Now, we take an important step in
this direction through the roll-out of Nokia Messaging in Austria, in
cooperation with mobilkom austria."
Nokia Messaging allows consumers to access email accounts from
thousands of ISPs around the world on their Nokia devices. Besides
A1.net, email accounts from the world's most popular webmail
providers, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail, and many others
can be easily mobilized. Each customer can access up to 10 personal
email accounts on their Nokia S60-devices. Nokia Messaging removes
the complicated steps and the need to remember technical data, making
the service extremely easy to set up. Push email technology ensures
that emails are sent to the mobile device as soon as they arrive at
the mail server. Nokia Messaging also makes it simple to read, send,
forward and reply to emails, download and read attachments, and
attach files to emails directly on the Nokia device.
mobilkom austria subscribers can use Nokia Messaging from May 2009
onwards on the brand new Nokia E75, as well as the Nokia N96. For
many other models the necessary software can be downloaded from
https://email.nokia.com.
About mobilkom
With 4.5 million customers and a market share of 42.5%, mobilkom
austria is Austria's leading mobile operator. The company,
headquartered in Vienna, has generated revenues of EUR 1,668.0
million in the 2008 business year. mobilkom austria's innovation
leadership is marked by the worldwide first GPRS Launch in August
2000, one of Europe`s first commercial UMTS networks launched in
Austria in April 2003 and worldwide first HSDPA in the UMTS network
in January 2006 and HSUPA in February 2007. With the mobilkom austria
group, the success of mobilkom austria extends beyond Austria's
borders. The mobilkom austria group includes mobilkom austria, velcom
in Belarus, Mobiltel in Bulgaria, Vipnet in Croatia, Si.mobil in
Slovenia, mobilkom Liechtenstein, Vip mobile in Serbia and Vip
operator in Macedonia.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world's number one manufacturer of mobile devices by
market share and a leader in the converging Internet and
communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all
major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable
people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. We also
provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.
Media Enquiries
mobilkom Austria
Werner Reiter
Tel: +43 664 331 2720,
Email: w.reiter@mobilkom.at
Nokia
Communications
Tel. +358 7180 34900
Email:press.services@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
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