SK Telecom and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the official launch of the BlackBerry solution in Korea at an event held at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul. SK Telecom will initially offer the BlackBerry Bold smartphone and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server software to business customers in Korea. The BlackBerry solution provides customers with powerful email, messaging, phone, organizer, web browsing and multimedia features.
SK Telecom plans to begin providing the BlackBerry Bold smartphone to corporate customers by the end of this month. Domestic and multinational companies will be able to purchase this innovative smartphone at around 800,000 won (excluding VAT) and a special discount price of around 700,000 won with subsidy applied. An additional data plan for BlackBerry service is required, which will be priced at 26,000 won monthly on top of rate plans for voice and data.
“SK Telecom anticipates that the new addition of the BlackBerry Bold and services will provide great convenience to our corporate customers and help expand Korea’s smartphone market. We expect BlackBerry smartphones to become a must-have item for businesspeople in Korea,” said Sung Min Ha, President of MNO Biz Company at SK Telecom.
