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The Bermuda Sun,
Jeannine Klein, March 26, 2004
TRANSACT yesterday became the island's first Internet Service Provider to offer secure e-mail and full web access to the wireless BlackBerry handheld.
Bill Dickinson, senior vice-president of sales and marketing for the Transact parent company Igility Ltd, said that the launch was a "significant move in the direction of providing the consumer and small business in Bermuda with complete mobility at a price they can afford."
Mr Dickinson said until yesterday only businesses that purchased and installed the BlackBerry Enterprise Software (BES) were capable of achieving the full benefits of BlackBerry.
He said that as the application service provider, Transact would be able to make the service affordable for others.
BlackBerry owners have wireless capabilities to manage daily e-mail, calendars, address books and tasks. Users may receive, forward and reply to messages whenever convenient.
"Calendars can also by synchronized so that while users are away from the office they can initiate, accept or decline meetings, invite attendees from their address books and view their calendars.
"The large businesses can afford the software and the servers as they have an IT group to install and manage that. The small business guy, the 3-10 employee companies around the island can't afford it.
"We'll afford it and then we'll charge them an affordable monthly fee to get access to the same service that the large companies can afford to get to."
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