Viettel, Alcatel-Lucent and RIM bring BlackBerry solution to Vietnam

by Darren Murph posted Dec 19th 2008 at 11:29AM

It's a good week internationally for BlackBerry lovers. First we hear that South Korea finally has unbridled access and its own Bold to toy with, and now we're hearing a similar story for the people of Vietnam. Viettel (a mobile operator in the country), Alcatel-Lucent and RIM have all joined hands to make it happen, with "it" being the launch of BlackBerry wireless service. Speaking of launch, prospective buyers can look forward to wrapping their palms around the Pearl 8100, BlackBerry 8700 or the Curve 8320 initially, though we wouldn't be surprised to see even more flavors roll out soon. There's no talk of price just yet, but feel free to phone up your nearest Viettel shop and see what's up.

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Filed under: Handsets

Tags: 8100, 8320, 8700, Alcatel-Lucent, BIS, blackberry, blackberry solution, BlackberrySolution, curve, curve 8320, Curve8320, pearl, RIM, vietnam, Viettel

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Quy @ Dec 19th 2008 12:21PM

vietnam buddy. keeding it.

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PUA @ Dec 19th 2008 12:27PM

Keed, Keed. Keed remember one but check Vietnam.

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Trong Hoang @ Dec 19th 2008 8:54PM

BlackBerry Curve 8320: ~758 USD (12,9 million VND)
BlackBerry Pearl 8100: ~582 USD (9,9 million VND)
BlackBerry 8700g: ~464 USD (7,9 million VND)

BlackBerry Internet Service
- BIS1: 26 USD/month (450,000 VND/month) + data charge: 5 VND/Kbyte
- BIS2: 32 USD/month(550,000 VND/month) + free data charge

BlackBerry Enterprise Service
- Installation fee: depends on the amount of devices
- BES1: 35 USD/month (600.000 VND/month) + data charge: 5 VND/Kbyte
- BES2: 41 USD/month (700.000 VND/month) + free data charge