As the Register says, T-Mobile is offering the UK customers genuinely-pushed email to a custom client, for a small consideration of £3.50 a month. This service connects to up to five existing email accounts and alerts the client to connect and download new messages using a silent SMS notification, that works like the BlackBerry service does. Clients are to download the application, though they have a chance to get a free month's usage, before the monthly fee kicks in, signing up.

The service has its own fair-use limit, so it might be suitable to those who are knocking their data tariff limits. However it’s hard to imagine that this type of users would like to share their email passwords with T-Mobile. Thus this service is for those who want to get access to their email easily, or want to pretend their communication is as important as their BlackBerry-sporting colleagues.

The majority on-phone email clients can be configured to automatically connect to the internet and download new messages every few minutes, making T-Mobile's new service excessive. But some users wouldn’t like to be bothered by configuring the integrated client, while the other ones will worry about the influence on their data traffic.