Hutchison, Rediffmail tie up for email service

NEW DELHI: Hutchison Max Telecom Ltd. (HMTL), a Mumbai-based cellular service

provider has tied up with Rediff.com India Ltd. an Indian Internet portal

focusing on India and the global Indian community. The tie-up will offer

Hutchison's Orangeworld customers Rediff's e-mail service, Rediffmail.

Orangeworld is a comprehensive mobile portal of Internet services, which offers

varied and exhaustive content through tie-ups with leading content providers.

Orange customers, both contract and prepaid, can now read, reply, compose,

delete and send e-mails by accessing their Rediffmail account on Orangeworld

from their Orange WAP phone. Orange, for the first time, will make it possible

for Just Talk customers (pre-paid customers) to access e-mails on their WAP

phones. This is the first time that HMTL will enable its customers to access

Rediffmail.

Commenting on the tie-up, HMTL chief executive officer Sandip Das said,

"As worldwide usage trends indicate, e-mail has been the single biggest

factor behind the Internet revolution. We feel our initiative to offer the

popular Rediffmail service through Orangeworld will spur WAP usage among our

customers."

HMTL is part of the telecommunications division of the Hutchison Whampoa

Group.