Hello,
My company is using a blackberry infrastructure here in USA, and wants to extend to our regional stores in Japan and Korea. Unfortuantely I cant find any providers in those areas who offer blackberry phones or service! I have checked the websites of nTT docomo, KDDI, VodaPhone and SKtelecom to no avail. Does anyone know if these or any other providers in these countries sell or can provide services for blackberries, even if we have to aquire them elsewhere?

Thanks!

And I don't believe you will soon, either. Japan is on a different mobile standard than the rest of the world and Korea uses CDMA, but in a different set of spectrum than in the U.S., at least that's what I'm told.

I agree with Mark. There are no existing BlackBerrys that will work in either Korea or Japan. None.

Is there any updated news about Blackberry in Japan? I see BES can use CDMA2000 networks, and there's been a lot of change since this thread, so was wondering. Not finding anything conclusive in googling.

Pym

You'd think that with the advent of BlackBerry Connect, we would be seeing devices that can run in Japan by now. The problem we have is that there are other solutions available but we want a worldwide standard.

Has anyone had a discussion with RIM about their intentions in Japan?

Japan uses WCDMA 2100 for the most part (NTT and Vodafone KK both do for sure), while South Korea is CDMA/EVDO 800.

There is a miniscule possibility that you could use a 7130 on the SKT network, but you would need the MSL for it, and there is a good possibility that the data traffic would not get passed back to your BES.

I am also in the same situation - need to provide BlackBerry service in Japan which I know is not possible.

I am going to attempt it with a Nokia phone and BlackBerry connect for the time being.

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Nevermind looks like BB Connect will not work on any 3G Japanese phones as of now.

You should be able to see BlackBerry in Korea sometime eventually -- RIM is looking into it.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/commun...9232188,00.htm

There are several parties looking seriously at offering Blackberry service in Japan, but it could take quite a while, if it in fact ever happens.

There are tons of Windows Mobile options. Willcomm has a great device in Japan, if you can actually get your hands on one.

Has anyone tried using the Verizon 8703e in Korea? I will be in Korea early next year and wanted to know what my options were for BB service. Heck, I would even be happy with just normal phone service there (no email, etc.).

I know this phone just came out, but anyone know if its theoretically possible to make this work?

There was also a press release by RIM on June 8 that NTT DoCoMo will market BlackBerry devices on W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS networks.