This new service can bring Internet e-mail to more Greeks than currently receive it since about 17.5 percent of the country’s 10.5 million people own a Cosmote mobile phone that would be able to access the service, while only about 5 percent can now access Internet e-mail via a PC connection.
Cosmote will be among the first wireless carriers worldwide to deploy the latest version of the Microsoft Internet Cellular Smart Access (ICSA) e-mail server, which will provide a full range of easy-to-use Internet e-mail services accessible not only over fixed line Web connections and WAP mobile devices, but also through regular mobile phones using Short Message Services. In addition to providing the technology, Microsoft will jointly market the service with Cosmote in Greece.
With the launch of MyCosmos e-mail service, we aim to offer our customers an affordable and easy to use e-mail service that they can access both through any PC Internet connection and any mobile device that they may have, said Evangelos Martigopoulos, CEO of Cosmote in a press release. In that respect, Microsoft has provided the scalable technology and the rapid deployment capability to quickly bring this service to our customers. We are happy that Microsoft is one of the important partners of Cosmote, and we shall further pursue such cooperations.
We believe that the Cosmote mobile e-mail service can play a key role in providing access to Internet e-mail to a wide range of the population in Greece where the penetration of mobile phones is much higher than the penetration of PC-based access to the Internet, said Hjalmar Winbladh, general manager of the Mobility Solution Center at Microsoft in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA).
Our joint marketing of the service with Cosmote is an example of how we can cooperate with dynamic wireless carriers to rapidly bring to market advanced mobile solutions in developing markets, said Yannis Rondiris, general manager of Microsoft in Greece.
