Vodafone, Cisco, RIM combine to offer new Vodafone services

Peter Dinham
Monday, 09 March 2009 09:46

IT Industry - Deals

Vodafone Australia has announced new services which it says, in collaboration with Cisco and Research in Motion (RIM), it has made available from today to all its Business One customers.

Vodafone’s general manager business markets, Hugh Humphrey, announced what he says is Vodafone’s full portfolio of Business One total communications solutions, and a new variation of its business service called, Vodafone Business One ‘Voice Package’.

Services announced by Vodafone include a new variation of its Business One ‘Voice package’ service for helping businesses maximise their current investments, such as an investment in a BlackBerry enterprise server;  a comprehensive pricing structure for its premium WiFi package, outlined as five service bundles; and, the Business One ‘Solution Builder’, with what it claims is a pioneering new interface which “ensures that Australian businesses from 10-100 employees can tailor their solution to meet their specific, total communications needs.”

Humphrey said Business One would deliver what he claimed was “ unparalleled integration and convergence between mobile and fixed, voice and data, services and equipment, bringing flexibility, scalability and efficiency benefits, to Australian SMEs in a fully managed service.

“Before Christmas, we delivered on our promise to bring the Vodafone Business One service to
the small business community. We now announce our comprehensive portfolio of services, which
will open up Vodafone Business One to an even greater number of Australian small businesses,
enabling them to capitalise on the latest advances in total communications.”

Humphrey claimed that Vodafone was bringing “genuine innovation and value to the market at a time when it is needed most.”

Ian Ross, head of managed services innovation, Cisco Australia and New Zealand, said that Vodafone Business One takes advantage of, what he describes as “the inherent flexibility of Cisco Unified
Communications to ensure the service evolves to meet ongoing business requirements.”

And, RIM’s director business development, unified communications, Matthew Waite, says Vodafone’s Business One enables small businesses to gain the benefits of true fixed-mobile convergence.