Posted by Matt Buck on February 27th, 2009
It’s not often I recommend a company! RatwareUK have been dealing with BarTel for some time now through several of our clients and we’ve been extremely impressed with both their level of service and results. BarTel are a well established business, based in Bolton and are one of the only few remaining, independent telecoms companies in the UK.
Because BarTel buy wholesale from BT, they can provide cheaper business call rates, saving companies around 20-30% on their business calls! BarTel also provide:
- Business Broadband standard or guaranteed
- Line Installation copper, ISDN or fibre
- Low Cost Calls
- Telephone Systems
In our experience, it has been far more reliable, cheaper and a better level of service dealing with BarTel compared to BT. For more information:
Contact Chris at BarTel: chris.hinde@barkertelecoms.co.uk / 0800 195 9011.
Posted by Matt Buck on February 15th, 2009
OK, so this weekend I find myself in the situation whereby I’ve got a POP3 account that I need to check regularly whilst I’m on the move. At RatwareUK we’ve got a BES solution, so I thought about creating a forwarder on the target email server to my principal email address which would push it through MSExchange and via BES to my blackberry. I hate email forwarding though – and it’s probably unwarranted – but I’ve got hangups from dealing with companies whose email aliases are setup on an unfathomable web of forwarders. I guess I’m biased but I try to avoid them at all costs! Using my Blackberry, I wanted to connect directly to my additional POP3 mailbox:
Introducing LogicMail – free, open source – I’m impressed. Implementation took around 2 minutes and I did it directly from their website on my Blackberry. I’ve now got a fast and reliable POP3 client which allows me to relay out through an SMTP server of my choice. The client also integrates with my Blackberry address list and has a host of settings to customise identity etc.
Pull technology will never be as fast or reliable as Push and we all know BES is the best at this. However, LogicMail provides a really good and painless alternative solution. It got me thinking about future blog posts. I think one day I’ll have to do a post detailing BES vs Windows Mobile.
Posted by Matt Buck on February 11th, 2009
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