{"id":69598,"date":"2013-01-30T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69598"},"modified":"2013-01-31T12:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T10:20:42","slug":"bis-and-blackberry-10-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/69598-bis-and-blackberry-10-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"BIS and BlackBerry 10 explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

BlackBerry Messenger<\/a> and other secure services, such as those for enterprises, will still run over BlackBerry<\/a>\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n

This is according to Rory O\u2019Neill<\/a>, VP of product & channel marketing at BlackBerry (formerly RIM).<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill was answering questions about what is going to happen with BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS<\/a>) and how BlackBerry 10 uses the BIS infrastructure.<\/p>\n

He said that they are not quite ready to talk about how South Africa\u2019s BIS-based data packages are going to change as they are \u201cstill talking through the commercial terms\u201d with carriers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a tremendous proposition in this market and other emerging markets,\u201d O\u2019Neill said, adding that in many cases BlackBerry was people\u2019s first experience of the Internet.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill said that they believe in BlackBerry 7, hinting at the fact that the current R59\/month BIS offerings in South Africa aren\u2019t going to change for older BlackBerry devices.<\/p>\n

\"Rory

Rory O’Neill<\/p><\/div>\n

He went on to say that the first BlackBerry 10<\/a> devices are positioned more at the mobile Internet market rather than the messaging market, and that they are less price sensitive.<\/p>\n

Combined with reliable information received by MyBroadband, this is a strong hint that BIS packages as we know them today in South Africa will not be coming to the BlackBerry Z10<\/a> and the BlackBerry Q10<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This does not mean that there won\u2019t be some flat-rated component to BlackBerry data deals, however.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill explained that BlackBerry 10 uses both their own infrastructure and the carrier\u2019s infrastructure to deliver the \u201cBlackBerry experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite honestly mobile operators have great mobile architectures,\u201d O\u2019Neill said.<\/p>\n

\"BlackBerry<\/a>

BlackBerry 10 phone<\/p><\/div>\n

O\u2019Neill didn\u2019t want to say whether messaging services other than BBM, including the likes of Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>, would be able to run over BlackBerry infrastructure.<\/p>\n

He did add that they worked \u201creally really closely\u201d with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn<\/a>, and other properties to integrate it into the BlackBerry 10 experience, however.<\/p>\n

Asked whether non-corporate email services will still run over BlackBerry architecture, O\u2019Neill said he didn\u2019t know, but said that the mail experience will be the same as before.<\/p>\n

\"BlackBerry<\/a>

BlackBerry 10 smartphone<\/p><\/div>\n

More BlackBerry 10 news<\/h3>\n

BlackBerry 10 BIS changes in SA confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BlackBerry 10 device prices and launch dates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 device details revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

BlackBerry 10 SA launch date revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BIS deals in South Africa are still being finalised, but BlackBerry has given some details about the future of the service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3978,97,10144,35],"class_list":["post-69598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-bis","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-10","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69604,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69598\/revisions\/69604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}