{"id":643623,"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.media\/index\/643623","title":{"rendered":"The end of unlimited BBM could erode BlackBerry\u2019s standing in emerging markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/blackberry-unlimited-bbm-analysis-340654\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/blackberry-z10-close.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=350&amp;crop=1\" 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&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/blackberry-unlimited-bbm-analysis-340654\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/1VI8y2Co6-o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","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":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}