The plan was apparently received positively by some carriers despite the embarrassing which appeared to call into question the network's claimed reliability to host such data services.

Despite financial and market struggles and much of the same poor investor sentiment that sank Laziridis and Balsille's stewardship of RIM, the company has ploughed with its traditional network-and-hardware model.

Only weeks ago, RIM found itself having to explain miscommunicated remarks by new CEO Heins that it planned to abandon the consumer market in favour of a retrenchment to the business sector.

On 4 April a London PR concert thrown by RIM and attended by hundreds of invited guests ended in .