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IM added to BT Business Email

David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 30 Aug 2007 12:29 BST

Instant messaging has been added to BT's email package for SMEs, the telco announced on Thursday.

BT's Business Email package, which costs £7.50 (excluding VAT) per mailbox per month, is a hosted service that includes shared calendar and address-book functionality. BT claims that the addition of IM to the package will help its customers unify their various forms of communication.

"Up until now, businesses have tended to use free consumer IM services, unless they are large enough to invest in their own systems," said Bill Murphy, the managing director of BT Business. "What we're doing is allowing even the smallest company to take advantage of secure, business-grade IM to help increase the speed of response and drive efficiencies, whilst letting them take a first step on the road to unified communications."

Companies signing up to BT's Business Email package will also currently receive a free download of Microsoft's Outlook 2007 personal information-management software.

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Could it be that ISP’s are making this out to be a bigger problem than it actually is? We’re a small country with an internet penetration of less than 60%, for every Youtuber there’s someone who only uses the internet to check their emails, more people surf on their mobile handsets than a few years ago. Surely things should even themselves up.