Nextel Mobile Email Provides New Way to Access Microsoft Outlook And Lotus Notes

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May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Nextel Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTL) today announced a new release of Nextel Mobile Email that provides users with a quick and easy way to access Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes email, calendar and contact information from Nextel Internet-capable wireless phones. This new offering enables Nextel customers to create a single, wireless office environment, helping users stay in touch with critical business information anywhere they go. These new Mobile Email capabilities allow customers to use Nextel phones to access existing Outlook and Notes accounts without the need for corporate server software. To add this service, Nextel Mobile Email users simply download the software from the Nextel web site onto their PC systems.

"There are times when accessing business information when you're not in the office is critical," said Greg Santoro, vice president of Internet and Wireless Services for Nextel. "The Nextel Mobile Office Email suite provides access to email, contacts and calendars from virtually anyplace. The Mobile Email capability is designed for small-to-medium size businesses, smaller workgroups within larger companies and individual users who want to stay on top of the critical information they need with one wireless phone and a single user interface."

In addition to Outlook and Notes access, customers can use Nextel Mobile Email to gain centralized, wireless access to up to ten Internet email accounts from Internet Service Providers, such as Earthlink, Mindspring and Roadrunner. Nextel Mobile Email allows users to set up customized alerts that inform them when new or important email messages arrive as well as create QuickText messages that provide pre-written text to quickly compose or respond to email messages.

In addition to Mobile Email, the Nextel Mobile Office suite provides users with two other ways to access email via a Nextel phone. For Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino environments, Nextel provides an IT-managed, behind the firewall solution through its partnership with Wireless Knowledge.

Additionally, customers that use Microsoft's MSN Hotmail can access existing accounts through MSN Mobile using a Nextel phone.

Nextel Mobile Email will be available through all Nextel sales channels on June 1, 2001. This product will continue to be included in Nextel Online Plus wireless web services, which are priced at $10/month for unlimited access.

The Nextel Mobile Email solution was developed with ViAir, Inc., a Seattle-based mobile applications management and services delivery platform provider.

Information about the new release of Nextel Mobile Email will be available on June 1 at www.nextel.com/email . This site includes an interactive demonstration of Mobile Office Email for Nextel phone customers.

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