About this weblog

What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Friday, March 29, 2013

BlackBerry Ships Six Million Smartphones

BlackBerry said its revenue in the quarter ending March 2nd was approximately 2.7 billion U.S. dollars, down 36% year-on-year.  It said it shipped six million smartphones in the quarter, including one million running its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, compared with 11.1 million handsets in the equivalent quarter a year ago.

BlackBerry said its global subscriber base at the end of the quarter was approximately 76 million, slightly down from 77 million a year earlier.  The smartphone maker added that it "will be increasing its marketing investment in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 in support of the global launch of BlackBerry 10." source: BlackBerry statement

No comments:

WHERE WE'RE HEADED: TELECOMS TRENDS AROUND THE WORLD: SUBSCRIBE HERE