Cingular Email Brings Email to Subscribers’ Cell Phones   10/24/2005 - 1,333 views,

Adopting a mobile email solution created by OZ Communications of Montreal, Cingular will not charge for the service, although Cingular customers must have a data plan for their mobile phone in order for the email service to work. According to a Cingular spokesperson, even their least expensive $5.00-a- month plan would provide enough data transfer to allow someone to check email a few times a day.

On the other hand if you are a power user like me, you may want to consider their all-you-can eat data plan, which at only $24.95 a month is a pretty good deal, and is sufficient for searching and browsing news on your phone, as well as checking email (not that I do any of those things with it, as I use my Sidekick for those activities.)

While OZ counts Sprint and Bell Canada among its customers, this is the first wide-scale deployment of its mobile email solution.

Said Hilmar Gunnarsson, executive vice-president of global sales and marketing at OZ, “For us as a company, it is a huge achievement in this time frame to go from developing the solution… and securing the first customer …and going into a mass deployment.”

“RIM has been phenomenally successful catering to high-end users, but that’s peanuts compared to the 700 million plus consumer e-mail accounts,” added OZ CEO Skuli Mogensen.