{"id":739141,"date":"2013-02-22T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=340654"},"modified":"2013-02-22T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:50:29","slug":"the-end-of-unlimited-bbm-could-erode-blackberrys-standing-in-emerging-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739141","title":{"rendered":"The end of unlimited BBM could erode BlackBerry\u2019s standing in emerging markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/blackberry-unlimited-bbm-analysis-340654\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/blackberry-z10-close.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=350&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C350\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"BlackBerry Unlimited BBM\" title=\"BlackBerry Z10\" \/><\/a><\/center>South Africa has been one of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) key markets globally and the Canadian vendor has held more than 50% of the smartphone market there for years. As the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry-z10\">BlackBerry Z10<\/a> now rolls out in South Africa, the country will be a key testing ground for a potentially controversial development. Local mobile operators will <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/70890-blackberry-z10-contract-prices-revealed.html\">no longer offer unlimited BlackBerry Messenger service<\/a> after May 31st, just <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/07\/blackberry-z10-t-mobile-release-date-321528\/\">three months after the Z10 debuts<\/a> in South Africa. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/blackberry-unlimited-bbm-analysis-340654\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/1VI8y2Co6-o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has been one of BlackBerry&#8217;s (BBRY) key markets globally and the Canadian vendor has held more than 50% of the smartphone market there for years. As the BlackBerry Z10 now rolls out in South Africa, the country will be a key testing ground for a potentially controversial development. Local mobile operators will no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36hD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}