Blackberry server and cross provider roaming?

[Belix]

Hi folks
We had our big cheeses here from Canada last week and they berated us for our "poor" communication abilities. In sort we were told to get all our mobile teams blackberries becasue they "worked the best".

In short they want:
- A blackberry server to integrate with Outlook and hence have live calender and contact updates, as well as the obviousl email side
- the ability for the blackbeeries to jump service provider when signal strength was bad from one, and better from another. ie jump from Vodacom to MTN.

Are either of these services available locally? I mean using Imap to forward outlook emails to balckberries is pretty simple, but with these new requests, I'm in unknown territory.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Sensorei]

Blackberry services are available here and I would recommend listening to your "Big Cheeses". Blackberries use RIM's Blackberry Internet service and Blackberry Enterprise Service for bigger corporations and business solutions. They can be easily integrated with your company's exchange server and outlook via wifi. I would recommend checking out the Blackberry support forums for more info at http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/ .

 

[bwana]

Hi folks
We had our big cheeses here from Canada last week and they berated us for our "poor" communication abilities. In sort we were told to get all our mobile teams blackberries becasue they "worked the best".

In short they want:
- A blackberry server to integrate with Outlook and hence have live calender and contact updates, as well as the obviousl email side
- the ability for the blackbeeries to jump service provider when signal strength was bad from one, and better from another. ie jump from Vodacom to MTN.

Are either of these services available locally? I mean using Imap to forward outlook emails to balckberries is pretty simple, but with these new requests, I'm in unknown territory.

Any help appreciated.

I'm not sure but I dont think you can hop from provider to provider at will from within SA. Do the local SPs even have roaming agreements with each other?

 

[Belix]

Hmmm. Thanks for the forum link. Will see if anyone there can provide furth info.
Our server guys have recommended a program that can sync calanders, contacts etc at a fraction of the cost, so will look into this too.