Top of the line BlackBerry smartphone features premium design and unprecedented performance; Perfect for business professionals and power users.

Cable & Wireless Caribbean and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the feature-rich BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone will be available in C&W’s markets across the region from September 8, 2008 before it becomes available in the USA..

The new BlackBerry Bold is designed to give business professionals and power users unprecedented functionality and performance. It is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi®, as well as a rich set of multimedia capabilities.

The BlackBerry Bold smartphone boasts a next-generation 624 MHz mobile processor, high-resolution, ultra-sharp display and newly enhanced, high performance browser that enable an enhanced web browsing experience, video streaming and fast downloading.

C&W Caribbean’s Executive Vice President Commercial, Mariano Doble says he expects the BlackBerry Bold to be a big hit with anyone who enjoys a cool feature rich phone. “The BlackBerry Bold is the total package, it has numerous features, gives users access to limitless services and it’s also a very sleek and attractive handset,” he said.

Mr. Doble also pointed out that with C&W offering attractive Blackberry postpaid plans across the region, the BlackBerry Bold would avail itself to a wider cross section of consumers as well as business customers.

The BlackBerry Bold radiates elegance with its lustrous black exterior, satin chrome finished frame and stylish leatherette backplate. With its stunning display, sophisticated user interface and newly designed full-QWERTY keyboard, the eye-catching smartphone is a symbol of both accomplishment and aspiration.

During the month of September, bmobile customers will get a chance to win a brand, new Blackberry Bold device. Customers can simply text ‘Bold’ to shortcode 946. Cost per text is only $1.50.

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Cable & Wireless is one of the world’s leading international communications companies. It provides fixed and mobile voice, data, IP (Internet Protocol) and broadband services to business and residential customers, as well as services to other telecoms carriers, mobile operators and providers of content, applications and internet services.  Cable & Wireless’ principal operations are in the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Panama, Macau and Monaco.

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