MSN Hotmail, MSN Instant Messenger delivered straight to Fastlink phones

The new partnership was sealed thanks to LINKdotNET, the region's first ISP and Migway's agent in the Middle-East entrusted with signing up regional GSM operators for the Hotmail service.

Benefiting from this new arrangement will be hundreds of thousands of Fastlink users who also subscribe to Hotmail and MSN. With each alert duly delivered through the Rassel SMS service, users can read the first 160 characters of every incoming email, with the possibility of requesting more through subsequent deliveries of the same magnitude. MSN Messenger text, typically shorter than 160 characters will be delivered all in one go.

Registration to the new service is offered free of charge at the MSN Arabia portal. SMS Messages terminated at the mobile or sent to MSN Messenger or Hotmail are charged at 8p each.

Mr. Bazyan, Fastlink's Data Group Manager, said: "This will undoubtedly be good news for so many people. It means a lot to Hotmail & MSN Messenger users who make up a good percentage of Internet users in Jordan, because it brings down yet another barrier that separates the Internet from the mobile world. Furthermore, if we consider that Internet users in Jordan are four times as many the number of actual Internet subscribers, which means that so many people still rely on friends and Internet cafes to access their email, we can begin to understand the value of the mobile handset as an access point to the Internet."

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