Date:01/10/2004 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/10/01/stories/2004100101680500.htm

Back Reliance Mobile Office wins 12 corporate clients

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Reliance Infocomm officials see the Reliance IndiaMobile replacing the cumbersome laptop for mobile corporate employees.

Mumbai , Sept. 30

RELIANCE Infocomm's first enterprise application `Mobile Office' has already fetched the company 12 corporate clients, including Housing Development Finance Corporation and Asian Paints.

Mobile Office allows employees of the customer organisation to access their enterprise applications, chiefly their office e-mail, from their Reliance IndiaMobile handsets. Mobile Office already supports 90 per cent of all popular enterprise e-mail products such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and other e-mail servers. Another possibility would be access through Reliance IndiaMobile to the office directory, apart from the complete range of regular e-mail features.

For Reliance Infocomm, this would mean that all employees of a customer who is allowed Office Mobile access would be customers of Reliance IndiaMobile.

In addition, of course, would be the charge for the office service itself, roughly at Rs 100 per head or seat for unlimited usage.

Specific mobile handsets would be used by customers of this service, said Mr Mahesh Prasad, President, Reliance Infocomm Ltd.

"This application will suit large enterprises, medium and small enterprises as well as the small-office home-office (SOHO) market," said Mr Prasad. Since Reliance Infocomm's telecom infrastructure as well as the fact that nearly 90 per cent of handsets sold by the company are Java-enabled, with download speed of 144 kbps, it will mean that there are no restrictions on text matter, said a statement from the company.

In fact, for many purposes, Reliance Infocomm officials see the Reliance IndiaMobile replacing the cumbersome laptop for mobile corporate employees. "It would be like having one's desk top on one's mobile handset," said Mr Prasad.

R-World, the suite of data and entertainment applications platform, already contains 120 live applications at any point in time and 150 applications in all, some of which are shelved from time to time, as they are occasion-based , said Reliance Infocomm officials.