Hutch, one of India's leading telecom service providers, and Research In Motion, a global leader in wireless innovation, announced recently the availability of BlackBerry for Hutch's mobile customers in India.

With the launch of BlackBerry, Hutch's corporate customers will now be able to enjoy the popular BlackBerry solution that supports wireless access to email, phone, text messaging, browser, organizer and other mobile data applications.

Designed for corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.

With this launch, Hutch also brings to its corporate customers the BlackBerry Mobile Data System (MDS). A key component of the BlackBerry platform, BlackBerry MDS provides a complete and optimized framework for creating, deploying and managing wireless applications for BlackBerry handsets. BlackBerry MDS leverages the industry-leading security, unique push-based architecture, reliability and administrative features of the BlackBerry platform to provide organizations with an easy and flexible environment for extending mobile applications to users.

In addition to BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Hutch also offers BlackBerry Internet Service for individuals and smaller businesses. This service allows users to access up to ten corporate and personal email accounts (including Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and most popular ISP email accounts) from a single device.

BlackBerry handsets immediately available on the Hutch network in India include the BlackBerry 7130g, BlackBerry 8700g, and BlackBerry 7290. Hutch will also soon launch the new BlackBerry Pearl.