Digicel, the largest GSM operator in the Caribbean, and Research In Motion (RIM) introduced earlier this week, BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P990 to customers on nine Caribbean markets.

The Sony Ericsson P990 with BlackBerry Connect allows customers to choose and enjoy the phone's comprehensive features and stylish design together with RIM's popular BlackBerry services. Supported BlackBerry features include push-based wireless email access, wireless email reconciliation and attachment viewing through BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service.

Additional features supported through BlackBerry Enterprise Server include: wireless calendar synchronization; remote look-up of corporate email addresses; Triple DES encryption; and IT policy enforcement and commands (such as remotely disabling or wiping data from a device in the event it is lost or stolen).

BlackBerry Connect for the Sony Ericsson P990 is available immediately from Digicel in Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, as well as Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Turks & Caicos; with plans to expand the offering across all of Digicel's 22 markets.

For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data. For individuals and smaller businesses, BlackBerry Internet Service allows users to access up to ten corporate and personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts) from a single device.