STC announced the launch of its Blackberry package, which allows customers to download up 250 MB for free and increase connectivity with other applications, for SR99 per month. In a press release STC stated that the “service offers practical solutions and applications in the mobile device with more additional features for email and SMS add to that the feature to compress data which provides more speed in uploading data, more battery life for the device, less cost for wireless service especially for transfer of data, and more dependency and better communications.” It also said the service offers “MSN Messenger, high speed internet browsing using 3G technology, instant messages between Blackberry devices (known as BBM).” For more information customers can visit www.aljawal.blackberry.com. __