{"id":647833,"date":"2013-03-20T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=386561"},"modified":"2013-03-20T13:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:10:49","slug":"the-plot-thickens-blackberrys-february-subscriber-math-will-be-a-nail-biter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647833","title":{"rendered":"The plot thickens: BlackBerry\u2019s February subscriber math will be a nail-biter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/20\/blackberry-earnings-preview-q4-2013-386561\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/blackberry10tease-rim.jpg?w=597&amp;h=480&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"BlackBerry Earnings Preview Q4 2013\" title=\"BlackBerry Z10\" \/><\/a><\/center>Wall Street believes that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=BBRY\">BBRY<\/a>) will ship between 300,000 and 800,000 new <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry-z10\">BlackBerry Z10<\/a> smartphones during the February quarter. This is the most widely discussed number for BlackBerry&#8217;s fiscal fourth quarter, but it&#8217;s far from the most important metric. Since the Z10 was not shipping to the U.S. market and was available only in select countries for a fraction of the quarter, the Z10 shipment figure is going to be open to interpretation. Instead, the firm&#8217;s total subscriber base is the number that is going to be highly relevant. This is because in the August quarter, BlackBerry added 2 million net subscribers and in the November quarter, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/20\/rim-q3-subscriber-loss-analysis-261538\/\">the company lost 1 million subscribers<\/a>. Late autumn appeared to mark a dramatic turning point. The subscriber growth in emerging markets slowed down so much that it no longer was able to offset the base erosion in the U.S. and the U.K.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/20\/blackberry-earnings-preview-q4-2013-386561\/?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\/ZXkZYFO5puY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street believes that BlackBerry (BBRY) will ship between 300,000 and 800,000 new BlackBerry Z10 smartphones during the February quarter. This is the most widely discussed number for BlackBerry&#8217;s fiscal fourth quarter, but it&#8217;s far from the most important metric. Since the Z10 was not shipping to the U.S. market and was available only in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647833","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=647833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}