Opened a branch office in Geneva and trying to get a company blackberry. Currently using my blackberry from UK roaming charge is flat £32 but voice is getting expensive as i'm charged roaming. Any options/ advice appreciated.

Additional, very confused about the license for blackberry use?? Currently we use our mobile phone portal and forward emails to than portal emails address which are then pushed to the blackberry. The licenses seem to be for BES servers and excahnge which we dont use. Any ideas. Thanks

Deploying a BES server for anything below 500 users and/or below top secret information is pointless. The charges and administration fees are high.

What you could do is a "hybrid" solution on a budget. I am using Orange's BIS Blackberry service and use a private and a business email on it.

The private mail is a gmail, nothing much to talk about.

If you know your business pop3/imap/smtp information, this is a no brainer. If your company however is tough on allowing access from outside through the aforementioned, here is how I went around it.

My business email is setup to forward copy of each received email to a second gmail. Now, inside gmail you have an option to "send email as" - dig through the settings. Basically, you enter the email that you wish to appear as sender, then gmail generates a confirmation email to this same account. Once you reply to this confirmation, in gmail you will be able to pick from which identity to reply.

In short, on a single blackberry phone, with BIS you can have up to 10 email accounts set. I use only two - one personal and one business, without need for BES and with the ability to respond as employee@company.com from the device.

I hope this info is useful for you - do not hesitate to ask if my tips miss a piece you need.