Last week RIM’s official BlackBerry account tweeted this news:
Pow! @BlackBerry continues momentum across EMEA with 1 Million+ new subscribers added in less than 3 weeks.
This is good reminder that the company is still adding subscribers in sizeable amounts, especially in EMEA.
Here’s a note from Patrick Spence, top man in Europe at RIM. [I’ve put some key points in bold]
Thank you to the over one million new customers who have joined the BlackBerry community across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in the last three weeks alone. We’re excited by the continued momentum we’re experiencing across EMEA, and are appreciative of the amazing efforts of our application developer partners, our operator partners, our retail partners, and our distributor partners who have helped us make this happen. BlackBerry continues to be the number one smartphone brand in a number of our markets, including the Netherlands, South Africa and the UK – where we also remain the number one smartphone vendor by total unit sales, and the number one prepay smartphone vendor. Our smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Curve also top the sales lists in countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia and we recently announced RIM’s international revenue for the first quarter had grown 67% year on year. Here in EMEA, we remain focused on enhancing the BlackBerry experience for existing customers, and welcoming more and more people to the BlackBerry community every single day.
Now then, the next time someone waves their hand at you commenting, “RIM is dead,” during a mobile development discussion, send them this post or remind them that RIM is still adding millions of new customers.