New Nextel email release includes Outlook, Lotus Notes
These new Mobile Email capabilities allow customers to use Nextel phones to access existing Outlook and Notes accounts without the need for corporate server software. To add this service, Nextel Mobile Email users simply download the software from the Nextel web site onto their PC systems.
"There are times when accessing business information when you're not in the office is critical," said Greg Santoro, vice president of Internet and Wireless Services for Nextel. "The Nextel Mobile Office Email suite provides access to email, contacts and calendars from virtually anyplace. The Mobile Email capability is designed for small-to-medium size businesses, smaller workgroups within larger companies and individual users who want to stay on top of the critical information they need with one wireless phone and a single user interface."
In addition to Outlook and Notes access, customers can use Nextel Mobile Email to gain centralized, wireless access to up to ten Internet email accounts from Internet Service Providers, such as Earthlink, Mindspring and Roadrunner. Nextel Mobile Email allows users to set up customized alerts that inform them when new or important email messages arrive as well as create QuickText messages that provide pre-written text to quickly compose or respond to email messages.
In addition to Mobile Email, the Nextel Mobile Office suite provides users with two other ways to access email via a Nextel phone. For Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino environments, Nextel provides an IT-managed, behind the firewall solution through its partnership with Wireless Knowledge. Additionally, customers that use Microsoft's MSN Hotmail can access existing accounts through MSN Mobile using a Nextel phone.
Nextel Mobile Email will be available through all Nextel sales channels on June 1, 2001. This product will continue to be included in Nextel Online Plus wireless web services, which are priced at $10/month for unlimited access.
The Nextel Mobile Email solution was developed with ViAir, Inc., a Seattle-based mobile applications management and services delivery platform provider.
Information about the new release of Nextel Mobile Email will be available on June 1 at www.nextel.com/email. This site includes an interactive demonstration of Mobile Office Email for Nextel phone customers.
About Nextel
Nextel Communications Inc., based in Reston, Va., is a leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications services and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the United States covering thousands of communities across the United States. Nextel and Nextel Partners, Inc., currently serve 185 of the top 200 U.S. markets. Through recent market launches, Nextel and Nextel Partners' service is available today in areas of the U.S. where approximately 220 million people live or work. In addition, through Nextel International, Inc., Nextel has wireless operations and investments in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the Philippines, Peru, Chile and Japan. Please visit our website at http://www.nextel.com.
Source: Nextel
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