Research In Motion made two big announcements this week at Mobile World Congress: It would start offering home media servers for its BlackBerry users and it would be launching a prepaid billing option for the handset users. The home media service, called "Unite Servers," is very similar to a fixed-mobile convergence service, except it uses an existing computer in the home to sync the device up to its email--instead of communicating over the carrier's data network.
Alcatel Lucent is powering a new prepaid option for BlackBerry users. The plan keeps track of the amount of data sent by the user and charges accordingly.
For more on RIM's news:
- check out this press release about the prepaid option [1]
- read this article [2] from Electronista
Links:
[1] http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/alcatel-lucent-announces-plans-develop-and-distribute-prepaid-solution-blackberry-pla
[2] http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/13/blackberry.home.server/