AT&T Bold Training To Be Continued…

BGR the studious little workers they are got us some very very useful information.  The past month has been all about Blackberry Storm and Blackberry Bold launches.  The Bold launch is what we are focusing on.  With all the delays and rumors and set backs, there have been hardly any set dates of release to believe.  BGR has its reliable sources that say October 2nd and BBNews has theirs that predicts the week of the 20th.  So rumors seem a little hard to believe.

Now BGR just received an email from an inside source that is notifying all AT&T employees that the Bold training courses originally said to begin October 7th have been cancelled.  This is due to the ongoing OS issues that they are having.  Apparently the Bold didn’t pass AT&T’s testing, which devices usually pass in 2-3 weeks.  This may spell out disaster for AT&T since they just posted their website for their Bold launch parties which are set to begin mid October.  At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if Verizon’s Storm launched before the Bold.  This would be sad because RIM’s first 3G phone wouldn’t have even made it to the U.S. before it’s second! Anyway, keep your ears open about launches and we will too.  Read the email after the link.

AT&T Email

As you are aware, with the anticipated launch of the 3G AT&T BlackBerry Bold, RIM has committed to hold training sessions in over 40 cities.  A large number of these sessions were to take place this and next week.  Due to the continued uncertainty of the device launch date, we will work with RIM to reschedule these sessions to a later date.

Any representatives that have registered will be informed by email of the schedule change. No action is required from your part.

Rescheduling the training to align with a final technical acceptance for BlackBerry Bold launch will ensure that:

a) the training material can cover all the feature functionality that will be on this device at launch (at this time we don’t have clarity on the status of all features).

b) handouts can be given to Dealers to reinforce the material covered

c) we will be able to provide attendees with a general availability date

c) the delivery of the material will be within one – two weeks of launch to ensure content retention and ability to practice what they learn in the field

d) the desired 30 person per session registration/attendance is achieved (training in the last week of a sales month at the end of a sales quarter should be avoided if possible)

Please let me know if any questions.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

via BGR