Blackberry as a modem (3G)?

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lchiu7

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#32636 22-Apr-2009 08:21

An organisation I know has a small fleet of Vodafone Blackberry devices and a BES. Looking at mobility options it seemed a Blackberry 3G with Bluetooth would be a nice way to provide mobile data to the mobile workers. While e-mail is fine, they could also access other corporate services, do mail via Outlook etc.

I know it was somewhat hard with a Telecom Blackberry but does Vodafone (or the hardware itself) allow this?

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johnr

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#208472 22-Apr-2009 08:44

Blackberry phone as modem on Vodafone works fine

But remember the data comes off the Blackberry plan bundle

John

lchiu7

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#208502 22-Apr-2009 10:43

Thanks John.

I think the Blackberries are already on data plans though it's not clear to me if they are individual or there is a data pool. This a public sector organisation so I suspect there are good deals with Voda in play here

And the BB's are 3G and have BT? There seems to be a mixture of Storms and the 9000's here

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#208503 22-Apr-2009 10:44

There is no data pool Blackberry plans

John

lchiu7

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#208555 22-Apr-2009 14:13

johnr: There is no data pool Blackberry plans

John

Can the phones do BT or do you need a cable?

Thanks

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