Blackberry is fading, both at unacceptable rate and at inopportune times, which compelled another U.S. government organisation to toss RIM’s beleaguered device.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is dumping BlackBerry for Apple’s iPhone 5. This is the latest amongst the several number of government organisations to drop the mobile phone.
Last week, the agency announced its latest program in a government filing, according to a report by Bloomberg. The agency said that the main reason to drop the mobile was that it was not consistent.
NTSB wrote that BlackBerry mobiles were “failing both at inopportune times and at an unacceptable rate.” The agency with 400 employees needs reliable, stable, and effective communication abilities to implement its key investigative mission and guarantee safety of the employees in remote locations.
NTSB is in charge of instantly investigating plane accidents in addition to transportation disasters. Two international service distractions on BlackBerry network, including the one in September, likely gave interrupt to the NTSB.
Research In Motion Ltd had a tough year when considering the existence of its BlackBerry mobile. Last month, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency also dropped the mobile because it said that the device no longer satisfied the mobile technology requirements of the agency.
One more insult to RIM is the announcement by the U.S. Department of Defense, which said that they will end the agreement with the company and will open bidding to other mobile makers, including Google and Apple.
But still, RIM hopes that it will be capable of serving government agencies.
A company spokesperson sent an email to CNET stating that the government agencies globally have believed the security and reliability of BlackBerry since a decade and they can still continue to perform well. He said that the company had one million government clients in North America alone, who relied on BlackBerry, and almost 400,000 government clients globally have upgraded their mobiles last year.
RIM has hopes on the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 that will be launched on January 30 to help in uplifting the business. The new BlackBerry 10 will have a full touch-screen feature and an updated operating system. The company also won a government security certification for the new mobile, which makes it to be used in secure government organisations. RIM said that it is planning to continue to provide to government agencies as BlackBerry 10 clients.
The company’s spokesperson told CNET that they are loyal to the mobility requirements of government organisations across the world and will carry on meeting these needs with the new BlackBerry 10.