BlackBerry service to shut down?

Reuben Lee | Jan 24, 2006

According to recent news reports, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a petition by Research In Motion to review a patent infringement ruling against the company. Many industry observers believe that this rejection could lead to a wide-scale shutdown of the BlackBerry mobile email service.

However, it seems that the BlackBerry users outside of the U.S. have nothing to worry about as the injunction against RIM will only affect its U.S. customers. A statement issued by StarHub confirms that "the case has no relevance outside the USA, including any effect on StarHub's BlackBerry service or customer in Singapore". RIM has also annnounced that in the event of an injunction, it "has prepared software workarounds designs which it intends to implement if necessary to maintain the operation of BlackBerry services in the United States without customer service interuption". More details are expected soon.

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