Optus Push Exchange Email

Written by Adam Gosling

Monday, 27 March 2006

Optus is the latest Australian carrier to offer a Microsoft Exchange-based push email service. Due for availability next month, the service will be available with Microsoft Exchange 2003 mail server and the iMate K-Jam handset. The BlackBerry style service will allow users to receive new email messages, calendar changes, contact changes, or task updates almost immediately. Paul Kitchin, Marketing Director of Optus Business, said: “Users are switched-on to the benefits of mobile email. Our research shows that one in four now regard the technology as extremely useful or essential. In providing both BlackBerry and now Windows Mobile solutions, Optus is able to offer customers choice in terms of devices and supported technology platforms.” Optus plans also to launch the iMate SP5 smartphone and the HP6965, a stylus based wireless PDA, by late April 2006. To gain the benefits of this push email service, customers need a Microsoft Exchange 2003 server with Service Pack 2, devices that run Windows Mobile v5.0 with Messaging and Security Feature Pack, and an appropriate rate plan from Optus. Related news items Palm Goes Consumer With Treo 500v -12/09/2007 BlackBerry Gets A New Browser -03/09/2007 Fujitsu Siemens To Give Up On PDAs -13/08/2007 Motorola Nudged Out Of Second Place -04/08/2007 NASA Says No iPhones, But BlackBerry Okay -31/07/2007 Newer news items Even Virgin Customers More Satisfied -23/04/2006 Vodafone's Broadband Ambitions -23/04/2006 Trading Halt Fuels iiNet Speculation -21/04/2006 ACCC Says No To Vodafone Termination -03/04/2006 Vodafone/Optus 3G Now Available In SE Qld -31/03/2006 Older news items Hutchison Three Signs Hotmail Deal -20/03/2006 BT To Cut Public Phones -16/03/2006 Is Porn The Wireless Killer App? -15/03/2006 Indonesia Gets National WiMax Network -14/03/2006 Telstra To Showcase Mobile TV -12/03/2006 Tag This Now: