Research In Motion (RIM) and SFR, a French telecommunications company, announced they are working together to bring the BlackBerry wireless email solution for enterprise customers to France on SFR's GPRS network.

"Access to corporate email is the keystone of the development strategy of data services for companies. RIM enables us to answer this need with a packaged, simple and strong solution, thanks to the integrated keyboard, in particular, and the long battery life. We therefore understand why this solution has appealed already to very many customers in other countries such as the United States, the UK, Germany and Italy," said Jean-Pierre Champion, General Manager for enterprise and professional activity at SFR.

BlackBerry is an end-to-end, wireless email solution for business. BlackBerry enables single mailbox integration with corporate email systems, using push technology that forwards email messages directly to the user's BlackBerry 5820 Wireless Handheld.