Press Release

September 4, 2009

Movistar and RIM Introduce the New BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Venezuela

New Smartphone it is Easy to Use and Offers Email, Messaging, Social Networking, Music, and Entertainment for People on the Go

Caracas - Movistar and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM, TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone in Venezuela.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 – a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones – is an incredibly approachable smartphone with plenty of easy-to-use communications and multimedia features to keep you connected and entertained on the go.

For people who like to be connected, the slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and easy access to music, games, and other mobile entertainment apps.

"The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is an extremely approachable smartphone. It will be particularly attractive to a younger crowd that likes to be fashionable and connected on social networks. We have a very attractive launch offering with a price of Bs. 1999 in prepaid and a free month of service on a data plan tailored for consumers. The monthly plan includes calls to other Movistar subscribers, other carriers and text messagesas well as 1GB of data for activities like Internet browsing, so users can enjoy all the possibilities offered by this smartphone," said Douglas Ochoa, Corporate Communications Director, Movistar. He added that customers who currently own a BlackBerry smartphone, can give their device to a friend and get the brand new BlackBerry Curve 8520, and both of them will receive 100 free minutes of calls to Movistar subscribers for three months. 

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 is a world phone and is also Wi-Fi®-enabled, allowing fast Web browsing and extended data coverage. In addition to providing the industry’s leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone is designed to be efficient and convenient. It introduces an innovative touch-sensitive trackpad, which makes scrolling and selection smooth and easy for a great navigation experience. It is also the first BlackBerry smartphone to feature dedicated media keys, smoothly integrated along the top of the handset, giving customers an easy, convenient way to control their music and videos.
 
Key features of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone include:

• Full-QWERTY keyboard and touch-sensitive trackpad for reliable, responsive typing and navigation
• 256MB Flash memory and a 512Mhz next generation processor for enhanced performance
• Premium phone features including voice activated dialing, and Bluetooth® (2.0), with support for hands-free headsets, car kits, stereo headsets and other Bluetooth peripherals
• 2 MP digital camera with zoom and video recording
• Advanced media player for music, pictures and videos, with dedicated media keys and a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack, plus BlackBerry® Media Sync, which makes it easy to quickly sync music from iTunes® or Windows Media® Player with the smartphone*
• Access to BlackBerry App World™, featuring a broad and growing catalog of third-party mobile applications developed specifically for BlackBerry smartphones. Categories include games, entertainment, social networking and sharing, news and weather, productivity and much more
• BlackBerry® Internet Service support for access to up to 10 supported email accounts, including most popular ISP email accounts such as Yahoo!®, Windows Live™ Hotmail®, AOL® and Gmail™; and  BlackBerry® Enterprise Server support, which provides advanced security and IT administration features for corporate deployments
• Expandable memory via hot swappable microSD/SDHC memory card slot, supporting up to 16 GB cards today and expected to support next generation 32GB cards when available. A 2GB card is included. 
• Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
• Quad-band world phone: EGDE/GPRS/GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

For more information please visit:  www.movistar.com.ve or www.blackberry.com/curve8520, or call toll free from a Movistar phone at 811, or (0212) 200.11.11.

* Certain music files may not be supported, including files that contain digital rights management technologies.
About Telefónica Venezuela

Telefónica, operates under the Movistar trade mark, is a leader in innovation in the Venezuelan market where it offers mobile phone services, fixed phone services, mobile Internet and digital TV with 11.9 million accesses in 2008. 

About Telefónica
Telefónica is one of the greater public telecommunications companies’ world wide, with stock market capitalization. Its activity its focused fundamentally in fixed phone business and mobile phone services, with broadband as key tool for the development of both business. 

It is present in 25 countries and has a customer base of more than 259 million accesses wprld wide.  Telefónica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe, and Latin America, where the company fundamentally concentrates its growth strategy of. 

Telefónica is a completely private company. It counts with more than 1.5 million direct shareholders.  Its capital stock is divided currently in 4.704.996.485 common stock that quotes in the Spanish stock markets of (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia) and in the London Stock Market, Tokyo, New York, Lima, Buenos Aires and São Paulo. 

About Research In Motion (RIM)
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software, and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North and Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

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