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T-Mobile UK launches "Office in Your Pocket"

25th October , 2004

Europe : T-Mobile UK launched "Office in Your Pocket", a major expansion of its mobile services for businesses, and announced key new broadband mobile devices and a more than tripling of UK Wi-Fi network.

Brian McBride, Managing Director of T-Mobile UK, said: "T-Mobile has pioneered high speed mobile networks, integrating Wi-Fi with 2.5G and 3G. Now, we’re giving fast, simple, secure - reliable internet access at broadband speed. For businesses and individuals everywhere, T-Mobile is putting your ’Office in Your Pocket’. This is changing the way business is done, where it is done and when it is done. Customers can increasingly access whatever they need, wherever they are, whenever they want and lock into their office systems.”

T-Mobile also announced, it has tied-up with BT Openzone to give customers of both organisations access to all BT Openzone’s 1,300 Wi-Fi locations in the UK and Ireland, and to T-Mobile‘s 9,200 Wi-Fi HotSpots in the UK, USA, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.

In the UK, this more than triples Wi-Fi locations to 1,900 giving T- Mobile customers by far the largest UK WiFi network as well as by far the largest network in the Western world. Group wide, T-Mobile now has over 10,500 Wi-Fi HotSpots of which 6,700 are wholly owned and 3,900 roaming agreements such as BT or T-Com in Germany.

T-Mobile launched key new mobile devices for the business market enabling broadband internet access.
The "Fusion" Datacard: a card that slips into your laptop, connects automatically to 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi networks, enables fast internet access and integrates simply with a company’s internal business systems. At present, only around 18% of all European and around 25% of all UK laptops are Centrino-enabled (Gartner, Oct 2004). The "Fusion" card brings Wi-Fi to all laptops giving full broadband speed, as well as access to all T- Mobile’s 2.5G and 3G networks.

T-Mobile MDA III: a new hand-held device combining phone, QWERTY key board, large colour screen, 2.5G and Wi-Fi access, Bluetooth? and, from early next year, Blackberry Connect, giving constant connection to your office email. Voice, email, internet access, video, personal contacts, electronic diary and familiar applications such as Word and Excel, all connected to your office systems.

T-Mobile Hewlett Packard iPAQ h6340: integrated GSM, GPRS, Wi-Fi access with Bluetooth, large screen, QWERTY keyboard within a handheld device. Voice, email, internet, video access on the move, linked to your office systems, contact base and electronic diary. A handheld PC. Along with the HP device, T-Mobile is offering a price package encompassing GPRS, Wi-Fi, voice and SMS usage.

Brian McBride commented: “Mobile has clearly moved beyond voice. In a very literal sense, T-Mobile is now putting the internet in your pocket, and the impact of this will come to be greater than even the internet itself has had to date."

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