Having last year forged tie-up with Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry, TATA DOCMO today announced the availability of BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone to its subscribers.

Announcing the launch of the BlackBerry solution for TATA DOCOMO customers, Mr Deepak Gulati, President, TATA DOCOMO, said, “TATA DOCOMO is a young brand that recently rolled out GSM services across eight circles within a span of 45 days and has received an enthusiastic response. When we launched our GSM services, we had promised our subscribers that we would bring to them the best products and services. Living up to that brand promise, we are launching two powerful BlackBerry smartphones for our customers. Indian telecom users will also have the option to connect any authorized BlackBerry smartphone available in the market and subscribe to a TATA DOCOMO data plan.”

“The BlackBerry smartphones, together with TATA DOCOMO offerings, will appeal to a broad spectrum of retail and business customers who want an exceptional mobile experience with e-mail, messaging, social networking, mobile Internet, music and entertainment,” Mr Gulati added.

The phones are available under bundled packages of Do 299 and DO 899 with the first plan offering unlimited data usage and email while the second plan additionally offering instant messaging access as well.

Ms Frenny Bawa, Vice-President, Research In Motion India, said, “We are very pleased to introduce the BlackBerry solution on the recently launched TATA DOCOMO GSM network. The BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphones each deliver a powerful mix of communications, connectivity and multimedia features that will suit the needs of Indian customers.”

Mr Pradeep Dwivedi, Senior Vice-President for Marketing and Product Development at Tata Teleservices Limited, said, “The Blackberry solution has been the de facto Gold Standard in enterprise messaging, offering ubiquitous connectivity and productivity enhancement. We are excited to extend the BlackBerry offerings on GSM to our vast base of enterprise customers and partners, who have so far enjoyed superlative services on CDMA and dual-technology platforms.”