Vodafone Egypt Selects Visto to Power Vodafone Business Email

Egypt’s Leading Mobile Service Provider brings Mobile Email to the Broader Market
Redwood City, Calif., July 17, 2007 – Visto Corporation, the leading provider of secure and easy-to-use mobile email, today announced that Vodafone Egypt has selected Visto to power its Vodafone Business Email offering. Vodafone has implemented the Visto Mobile™ platform to bring mobile email, calendar, contacts, tasks and other services to consumers, small, medium businesses and busy professionals throughout Egypt.
Since entering the Egyptian market in 1998, Vodafone has achieved market dominance by being the first to offer the most advanced and innovative mobile services. Vodafone Egypt will now be able to deliver a service that takes ease of use to the next level – simplifying the mobile email experience for all customers, regardless of the size of their business or type of email account.
“With Visto Mobile, we are able to address the connectivity needs of the broader market by offering a service that is both easy to use and widely available - key factors in the mass adoption of mobile email”, said Khaled ElKhouly, Enterprise Director of Vodafone Egypt. “The Visto Mobile Platform enables us to expand our mobile services portfolio with new services that streamline productivity, improve communications and, because users can access both corporate and personal email, strike that important balance between work and home.”
Vodafone Egypt customers can tailor their own mobile email service depending on their individual requirements, organization size and their specific email accounts. Vodafone Business Email is available for both corporate and personal email accounts based on Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and leading Internet-based email offerings.
“With the addition of Vodafone Egypt, we continue to demonstrate our leadership and commitment to partnering with the leading carriers that are delivering innovative mobile services in rapidly growing markets all over the world,” said Frederic Aries, Visto Senior Vice President and General Manager for EMEA. “We are proud that Vodafone Egypt has chosen Visto to offer it’s vast and rapidly growing subscribers easy-to-use mobile email across a broad array of devices, meeting their growing appetite for mobile connectivity.”
Pricing and Availability
Vodafone Business Email powered by Visto Mobile is immediately available at https://businessemail.vodafone.com.eg on leading devices based on the Symbian, Palm and Microsoft Windows Mobile operating systems.