an innovation in the Nigerian markets brought about by the recent agreement between Visafone Comm.
Ltd and Blackberry developers RIM. This makes Visafone the first mobile service provider in Africa and the Middle East to have such devices on sale.
All Visafone shops in Nigeria have begun taking pre-bookings from customers for the BlackBerry Curve 9310, BlackBerry Curve 9370 and BlackBerry Bold 9930 smartphones, which will be available in November.
The combination of the BlackBerry smartphones with BlackBerry services will give Visafone customers access to email, Internet and social networking apps, including BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Facebook and Twitter. Industrial analysts feel this move is aimed at raising Visafone's stake in the smartphone and data segment of Nigeria's telecommunications market. Pre-booking for the phones was announced since Wednesday last week during a joint press conference held in Lagos.
Mr. Jim Ovia, chairman of Visafone, stated, "This partnership represents a big step forward in Africa's mobile history and we are very excited to be at the forefront of such a ground-breaking development in the Nigerian market. We have responded to our customers' demands for BlackBerry services by being the first to provide them with a suite of CDMA-enabled BlackBerry smartphones that best meets the region's growing mobile needs. More broadly, this launch is a major boost to the NCC's efforts to achieve growth of data usage and quality voice services to the country's 100 million active mobile phone lines."
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