Blackberry plans China sales push

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Source: BBC

Blackberry mobile phone services will soon be available to individual customers in China for the first time.

The handheld devices, made by Canadian company Research In Motion, have previously only been available in China to employees of a few major companies.

Workers at smaller firms will also now be able to access a Blackberry - long a mainstay of Western business users.

The Chinese market is expanding fast, and Blackberry's arch rival, the iPhone, is making inroads there.

The country already has 650 million mobile subscribers. Research In Motion will provide its Blackberry device in partnership with China Mobile, which dominates the market with 513 million subscribers.


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