Lagos January 31, 2011: Etisalat, Nigeria’s most innovative GSM service company, is set to introduce two new BlackBerry service plans in line with its commitment to offering services that meet the diverse needs of its growing subscriber base. The additions to the BlackBerry® Internet Service family are BlackBerry® Internet Service Social and BlackBerry® Internet Service email & IM.

BlackBerry Internet Service Social provides users with unlimited social networking (Facebook®, Twitter®, Flickr™, MySpace®) and instant messaging (Yahoo!® Messenger, Google Talk™, Windows Live™ Messenger, BlackBerry® Messenger) at N200 daily, N700 weekly and N2,000 monthly. While BlackBerry Internet Service Email & IM offers unlimited email and instant messaging on the device at the cost of N300 daily, N800 weekly and N2,500 monthly. The monthly plan also comes with a bonus 100 SMS.
“The new BlackBerry Internet Service plans meet the needs of subscribers who are active users of social networking platforms and technology-savvy subscribers who want to be in touch with their business associates and friends at all times via email and instant messaging,” said Etisalat’s Chief Commercial Officer, Wael Ammar.
Etisalat currently offers the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 and Blackberry® Torch 9800 smartphones at all of its Experience Centres across the nation.