Verizon rolls out Exchange Server push email support with RemoSync
By Will Park on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 1:53 PM PST In Announcements, Applications, Verizon
Push email on mobile devices, once the exclusive domain of BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)-maker RIM, is really starting to catch on. And, with push email services gaining more and more traction among the smartphone masses, it makes sense for carriers to roll-out their own push-email services – for fear of their inevitable decline to serve as a “dumb-pipe.”
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless has announced their RemoSync application to bring Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange server support – and the push email goodness that comes with it – to the carrier’s compatible handsets. Read, compose, reply, forward emails; dole out meeting invites; and synchronize Outlook contacts and calendar events to your handset.
RemoSync costs $10 for every month that you have email pushed to your handset. of course, data charges apply, so you’ll want an unlimited data plan if you know what’s good for you. If you don’t, Verizon will be happy to charge you $2 for every megabyte that you download.
The email client should be included in the data package. It’s so dumb that carriers feel they need to charge thier customers for every little thing! These Multi-Billion dollar corporations are just getting greedy! >.
I think i needn’t this service, why i need cost $10 to get email push? I can read it directly. Agree raidium’s opinion.
Also agree with raidium, this is just a product push
The issue isn’t as much that Verizon is requiring you to pay for this service, but that Verizon is forcing customers to use a Verizon-backed push email solution when there are so many free push email solutions out there.
But, if Verizon allowed for free push email clients to be used, the carrier would hasten their fate in becoming a dumb pipe – where the carrier’s network is only used to ferry bits and bytes back and forth, with little need for any real carrier services.
Carriers need to wise up and get with the times. Especially in the US.
Once they realize that they can’t prevent their fate, network development should speed up and bring the US on par with other developed nations in terms of wireless infrastructure.
On the other hand, when you already make billions, Raidium, it’s hard not to try and make more
…. which is the definition of greed, I believe…
Exactly Will! But I’m sure in time someone will find a way to configure some push email freeware for the phones rather then customers being strangled to death by Verizons tight grip on data. And as you say, I’m sure the carriers already know that. They are just trying to get a few more dollars before someone does and that, my friend, is the very definition of greed!