TD Staff 
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), the government telephone service provider for New Delhi and Mumbai, has come up with BlackBerry Lite Service Plan (BIS Lite) – an INR 229/- Blackberry plan meant exclusively for MTNL’s postpaid subscribers.
The features of the service include:
- Access to e-mail (with full e-mail attachment viewing like the ones in JPEG, .RTF, .BMP and .TIFF formats, and also documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- Access to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and IM applications (such as Yahoo and Gtalk).
- Push mail for up to ten supported business as well as personal mail accounts, and an optional Blackberry e-mail ID as well.
Under this plan users will be charged for Internet browsing on the basis of a Pay As You Go service, with the rate being 1p/10 KB.
BIS Lite plan is likely to be there on 1st September, being initially available for the Delhi circle.
An MTNL user eager to avail the service can call up MTNL’s toll free number – 1503.
The plan seems to be expanding Blackberry’s reach to even the highly price sensitive section of the Indian consumers (in Delhi and Mumbai, of course). It will be in sharp contrast with Blackberry’s image of having users mainly from the high profile clients, such as corporate honchos.
