Maxis expects to sell 5,000 BlackBerry solutions

The news came in last Saturday, so apologies for the late posting. We reported back in September that Maxis and Research-in-Motion (RIM) tied-up to offer the BlackBerrys in Malaysia. Well, the roll-out date is February 2005, and Maxis expects to sell about 5,000 of them. Currently, 100 of its selected corporate customers, all multinational companies, were using BlackBerry on trial basis.

The company currently runs a huge advertising campaign promoting its overseas roaming service - is there a relation between this? Is Maxis tending its focus onto the corporate sector, cconsidering the fact as well, that the mobile market is nearing consolidation?

(By Asia Business Consulting)