ViAir inks deal with Rogers AT&T for wireless e-mail

ViAir announced Canada’s Rogers AT&T Wireless launched a new corporate e-mail service for its customers across the country.

The deal marks the 11th wireless carrier customer for ViAir, which offers a wireless e-mail platform that allows carriers to deploy software behind corporate firewalls so wireless users can access their corporate desktop applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes. The platform is device and network agnostic.

ViAir’s experience is making the company a valuable commodity. Since it has a database of customers, it can hold carriers’ hands to show them how to increase average revenue per user (ARPU) from wireless email, said Bruce Chatterley, ViAir CEO.

“We can look across 11 different customers and show them best practices,” he said. “It starts to feed on itself when you get that scale of customers.”

Chatterley said ViAir’s carrier customers on average are increasing their ARPU by $10 per month with the company’s wireless email solution.

ViAir’s other announced customers include AT&T Wireless, Nextel Communications, Nextel Partners and SmarTone in Hong Kong.