T-Mobile's Responce to the RIM (Blackberry) case!
T-Mobile Message to BlackBerry Customers
on RIM Announcement of Contingency Software Update
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on RIM Announcement of Contingency Software Update
February 9, 2006...
Dear Valued T-Mobile BlackBerry Customer:
Some of you have asked us about the patent litigation between Research In Motion Limited® (RIM®), manufacturer of BlackBerry devices and enabler of BlackBerry services, and NTP, and how it may affect you. In the lawsuit, NTP claims that RIM’s BlackBerry e-email system infringes various NTP patents, and NTP is seeking a court order that would prevent continued operation of certain aspects of RIM’s BlackBerry service in its current design.
RIM has announced it has designed and tested a software update that would allow its partners and customers to conti
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terryjohnson16 said:...
T-Mobile Message to BlackBerry Customers
on RIM Announcement of Contingency Software Update
February 9, 2006
Dear Valued T-Mobile BlackBerry Customer:
Some of you have asked us about the patent litigation between Research In Motion Limited® (RIM®), manufacturer of BlackBerry devices and enabler of BlackBerry services, and NTP, and how it may affect you. In the lawsuit, NTP claims that RIM’s BlackBerry e-email system infringes various NTP patents, and NTP is seeking a court order that would prevent continued operation of certain aspects of RIM’s BlackBerry service in its current design.
RIM has announced it has designed and tested a software update that would
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many companies (providers) feel this way becuase many people have blackberry service and it is essential for their business to increase data arpu.
lets hope they can settle this situation and get it behind them.
lets hope they can settle this situation and get it behind them.
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A bigger issue (if not the biggest) is that the US gov't have TONS of users that depend and rely on this service every day including homeland security! They were one of the parties threatening to step in and settle this matter for NTP / RIMM if they didn't get this out of the way pronto!
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well that isnt the issue really becuase NTP had made it clear to the courts and to RIMM that public safety people and government agencies will NOT be affected by this injunction/outage if it was to be enforced. the rest of the people, such as regular consumers and some businesses, would be subjected to that injunction/outage if the court was to grant NTP's notion.
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RIM stated it is not possible to "filter" service for gov't agencies and shut the rest off.
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