There seems to be some confusion here. IF you are going to use the BB on your own BES, the carrier has to enable the device/data plan to be able to do this (otherwise you will only have data on their network, not yours). I have confirmed this directly with RIM when I had a BB that had an unlimited data plan, but wasn't able to activate it on our BES. Took 2 seconds for the carrier to allow it to be used on a BES (and not just BIS). You pay for the data plan ($20, $30, $40, whatever). Point is, you have to tell them that you will be using the device on your own BES. You don't have to pay for this, just let them know.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Blackberry Server question. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Todd Lemmiksoo<tlemmik...@all-mode.com> wrote: > One > of the sales guys told me the $20 /month/phone is for a piece of > software Nextel puts on the phone to interface with the BES. That's horsesh*t. The BB handhelds come with everything they need to talk to a BES. I think Nextel is trying to fleece you. Either that, or this is some kind of SaaS deal, or Nextel is offering to rent the BES CALs, or something like that. Again: On VZW, we don't have to pay anything extra to use our BBs with BES. Given all the other crap VZW pulls -- the don't just nickle and dime you, they quarter and dollar you -- I'm kind of amazed to hear of another carrier charging more than VZW does for something. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
