Reliance launches BlackBerry service

Reliance Communications (RCOM) on Monday launched Research in Motion's push platform based BlackBerry wireless solutions in what marks a first for an Indian CDMA network in India.

The Canadian company has already been present in Indian market through GSM operators Vodafone Essar and Bharti Airtel. The company is aggressively trying to tie up with more operators.

According to sources, RIM is already in advanced talks with BPL, Tata Indicom and Spice Telecom also to start BlackBerry services in India and agreements are expected to be sewn up in the next few months.

After Airtel, Reliance's huge pan-India network could mark a big foray into the hitherto untapped upper end CDMA market for BlackBerry.

Available across 10,000 towns and three lakh villages, Reliance can claim it to be the most widely connected BlackBerry service in the country. It is simultaneously rolling out BlackBerry services in its GSM circles too.

Reliance Communication is the first to launch BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphone in India which allows interoperability between CDMA and GSM network, which delivers high Internet speed on one hand and offers international roaming across the globe on the other.

Along with premium phone features, Web browsing and other mobile productivity applications, the sleek and stylish BlackBerry 8830 features a full QWERTY keyboard, large bright display, intuitive trackball navigation system, a microSD expandable memory slot and an advanced media player for listening to music, viewing pictures and watching videos.