MTNL Launches India’s Most Affordable BlackBerry Service Plan for Rs. 229

In an attempt to provide enhanced value propositions to the customers, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today announced the launch of India’s cheapest and most affordable BlackBerry Lite (BIS Lite) Service plan for its postpaid subscribers in Delhi circle.

The new BlackBerry Lite (BIS Lite) plan comes at monthly rental of Rs. 229, provides an innovative and highly economical option for customers who wish to stay connected primarily through E-Mail, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and Instant Messengers (IM) like Yahoo, GTalk, MSN etc while on the move.

BlackBerry Lite (BIS Lite) @229 enables BlackBerry service users on the MTNL network to access up to 10 supported POP3/IMAP e-mail accounts unlimited free. Subscriber can view, manage and respond to all their email and messages right from their smartphones while on move.

All other service providers charged Rs. 299 per month for the similar BlackBerry Service plan while at MTNL it cost just Rs. 229. Apart from Unlimited Email and IM, the best part of this plan that subscriber can access Internet Browsing on Pay As You Go basis (1p/10 KB data charges) which is not allowed in almost all other operators who offers BlackBerry Services in India.

The plan will be available from 1st September, 2011.To avail the BB Lite Plan-229, Subscriber needs to make activation request on 1503 (toll free from MTNL).

MTNL BlackBerry Lite (BIS Lite) Plan Features -:

• Unlimited Free Push mail access up to 10 supported business and personal mail accounts.
• Optional BlackBerry Email ID.
• Full email attachment viewing where in subscriber can view popular attachment formats including JPEG, BMP, TIFF, RTF, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF.
• Unlimited access to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) ( PIN to PIN based BlackBerry Instant Messaging Service) .
• Unlimited free access to all popular Instant Messengers (IM) where in subscriber can exchange messages in real time with their contacts on Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, MSN Messenger (Windows Live) and others.
• Internet Browsing on Pay As You Go – 1p/10 KB .