Nokia may launch its push email service by Dec

KOLKATA: Nokia, the world���s largest mobile phone vendor, is planning to commercialise its push email service, Nokia Messaging, in India by December. While the Finnish company has been undertaking trials for Nokia Messaging in India since April, the company is now finalising partnerships with telecom operators and is in the final lap of receiving regulatory approval from DoT.

The move has already raked up high-decibel interest in the domestic telecom market, as Nokia gears up to topple Canadian smartphone maker Research In Motion���s (RIM) dominance in push email with BlackBerry services. Nokia also has plans to deliver its own push email service on its mid-end devices, thereby enabling push email for the first time beyond the so-called smartphones.

Talking to ET, Nokia India director (marketing) Vineet Taneja said India figures among the largest countries globally in terms of the number of users for Nokia Messaging Service even in the trial phase. ���We plan to launch the service by the year-end. We are in advance stages of discussion with different operators, whereby consumers will get the service through an operator plan,��� he added.



Nokia���s push email service is now available on more than 20 Nokia smartphones which run on the Symbain S60 platform. This includes the E Series handsets, 5800 XpressMusic, N97 and N86, among others. However, the company
has plans to enable Nokia Messaging even on the mid-end handsets which run on the S40 operating system.