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[November 04, 2009]

BLOG: Life and Tech: Business users to pay for Exchange access on new Droid [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 4--As we get closer to Friday's launch of the new Motorola Droid phone by Verizon, there's some talk in tech circles centered on how the wireless carrier is going to handle access to Microsoft Exchange's Active Sync feature. Apparently, Verizon will change an extra $15 for customers wanting to access their company's email system.



An article at Wired.com [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/verizon-droid-exchange/] questions why the company would charge for this. Verizon says it's standard practice for business customers (Blackberry users know about this) to pay extra for syncing with corporate servers to access email.

But that may not be telling the whole story. In the case of the BlackBerry, users pay additional fees because the phones connect with a company's BlackBerry Enterprise Systems and not the consumer-focused BlackBerry Internet System, points out Mashable [http://mashable.com/2009/11/03/verizon-droid-exchange/]. And that involves additional licensing fees.



The Droid, though, runs the open source Android 2.0 platform with ActiveSync support already built in. That means users shouldn't have to pay extra fees for their device to connect with their corporate servers.

I have to wonder if Verizon is missing out on an easy way to boost sales of its new phone. From a cost savings perspective, it seems like a lot of companies/users would give this phone an extra look (over a Blackberry, for example) if it offered a way to cut monthly cell phone bills.

Of course, at least two things come into play there. First, the Droid seems aimed more at regular consumers rather than business users. And second, Verizon also sells a lot of Blackberrys.

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