New mobile IM, Email combo solution provides consumers with one-stop messaging access

OZ, a consumer mobile messaging solution provider, announced that Bell Canada has selected OZ to provide mobile email services to customers of Bell Mobility, the national wireless business unit of Bell Canada.

“We are very pleased to be working again with Bell Mobility,” said Skuli Mogensen, Founder and CEO of OZ. “By combining two of the most popular communications services available on the Internet onto the mobile phone, OZ enables Bell Mobility customers to stay connected with the people that matter most in their lives with the messaging solution of their choice.”

The Bell Combo Client allows Bell Mobility and Solo Mobile customers to easily use their IM and email solutions at the same time. For example, a user is reading an email on a mobile phone, with a glance, the user can simply see which one of their contacts is available on IM and can start a chat discussion, and vice versa. The solution is currently available on the Samsung a900 and the Sanyo 6600 devices.

About the OZ Mobile IM and Mobile Email Solutions

* The OZ Mobile IM Solution allows mobile operators to offer their subscribers affordable access to an already established communication phenomenon, and if desired, immediately leverage their own mobile communities with presence, and increase ARPU. The OZ Mobile IM Gateway seamlessly bridges the mobile phone and the portal/Internet messaging worlds; and the OZ Mobile IM Clients are designed to provide subscribers with a real-time presence experience that is similar to the PC-based portal/Internet IM services.

* The OZ Mobile Email Solution is the industry’s first mobile email offering that enables consumers to access, and mobile operators to affordably deliver, branded email from AOL®, MSN ®, Yahoo! ® or other portal/ISP email services, on low-cost/entry-level mobile devices. Simple to connect, consumers can easily log-in to their existing portal based email accounts using their existing username and password – allowing them to read and respond to their email messages in real-time.

Source: OZ