Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Nokia and Telkomsel to launch Nokia Messaging for Indonesian consumers

Jakarta, Indonesia – Telkomsel and Nokia announced their collaboration to offer the Nokia Messaging service, whichwill be commercially available to Telkomsel subscribers from 26 December 2009onwards. Telkomsel is the first operator in Indonesia to commercially launchthis service which will allow users to enjoy easy access to mobile email ontheir Nokia devices. Telkomsel is also the first operator worldwide to offerNokia Messaging for Instant Messaging to prepaid consumers.

Asthe best and leading mobile lifestyle and solutions provider in the region, wealways aim to deliver the best service to all of our customers. We havedemonstrated our strong commitment to offering innovative mobile emailsolutions and are proud to be the first to deliver Nokia Messaging to theIndonesia market and the first to provide prepaid charging for NokiaMessaging’s IM service to meet our consumers’ needs,” said Rachel Goh,Telkomsel’s Vice President of Product Lifecycle Management.

Offeringeasy set-up and access to several email accounts as well as Instant Messagingall on one device, Nokia Messaging has the potential to become as popular asSMS,” said Bob McDougall, General Manager, Nokia Indonesia. “Today, we are pleasedto announce Nokia Messaging together with Telkomsel, who will be joining otherleading operators in Southeast Asia Pacific to offer this innovative service totheir customers.”

NokiaMessaging is an easy to set-up and easy to use push email service which allowsuser to mobilize up to ten personal email accounts on one device. NokiaMessaging supports all leading consumer email solutions, such as Gmail, WindowsLive Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail as well as local email service providers. The usercan read, send, smart forward, reply to emails, download, read and attach filesdirectly on their mobile phone. Push email technology ensures fast delivery ofemail to the mobile phone as soon as the email arrives on the email server.Nokia Messaging also allows you to mobilize your IM accounts to enable users tochat with your friends conveniently.

NokiaMessaging service is supported on a wide range of Nokia devices, including theNokia E71, Nokia E63 and Nokia E52. The service also comes onboard in the newNokia E72 and Nokia E75.

AboutPT Telkomsel(www.telkomsel.com)

Telkomselis owned by two major companies Telkom 65% and SingTel 35%. Telkomsel is aleading cellar telecommunications service provider with more than 50% ofcellular users in Indonesia.Serving more than 82 million customers, Telkomsel is the 6th biggest cellularproviders in the world in terms of customer base.

AboutNokia

Nokiais a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world's leading maker ofmobile devices. Today, we are connecting people in new and different ways -fusing advanced mobile technology with personalized services to enable peopleto stay close to what matters to them. We also provide comprehensive digitalmap information through NAVTEQ; and equipment, solutions a

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