Earlier this year things did not seems to be going in favour of Canada’s very own Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM), as the pace of losing its consumers to both Android and iOS powered devices got faster and its shares price in stock exchanges also plunged down pretty swiftly and eventually hit the single digit mark.
To add insult to the injury, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency of United States declared back in October that they would end their agreement with the Blackberry maker and switch to Apple’s iPhone.
If ICE would have done that, RIM may well have lost more than the 17,000 employees of this agency, which could have been a great blow for smartphone manufacturer, especially at a time when it was already struggling and under great stress over losing market share.
However, once RIM started rolling out features of its upcoming Blackberry 10 smartphone, things began to turn around in its favour. As the first rate features of BB10 touched new highs during testing, many carriers and analysts were compelled to change their stance on RIM. Due to this reason, RIM’s stock price also started to jump up quite fast, opening at the $13.75 mark this morning.
Moreover, the same the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency of the United States that had earlier decided to end its contract with RIM has now made it known that they will give the Waterloo based company one more chance to retain its contract. Therefore, ICE will now test run the latest BB10 platform from RIM, which also includes BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.
This means that RIM still has a chance to keep its contract with ICE to use Blackberry till 2013. With its latest BB10 smartphones are ready to make their debut on January 30 next year the Canadian company has a decent chance to keep its agreement with ICE.
Source: TechVibes
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