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<li>[2015-01-21] Blackberry CEO Chen writes open letter</li>
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<li>] calls for net neutrality for apps, vendors should have to write bb apps</li>
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<li>[2015-01-22] Reaction from the press</li>
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<li>] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/21/blackberry-wut/" target="_blank">BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory&nbsp; TechCrunch</a></li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30932399" target="_blank">BBC News - Make coders develop Blackberry apps, says firm's boss</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackberry-never-looked-desperate-184531520.html" target="_blank">BlackBerry Has Never Looked So Desperate - Yahoo Finance</a>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] &nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/01/blackberry-net-neutrality/" target="_blank">http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/01/blackberry-net-neutrality/</a>&nbsp;- by John Chen</li>
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 ] BB i dont know what Chens motives/gameplan are/is here, but .... -
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] chen on nn
we pivot away from our prior reliance on hardware to become a full-service, device-agnostic provider of highly secure and productive software and services
Key to BlackBerry&rsquo;s turnaround has been a strategy of application and content neutrality. For example, we opened up our proprietary BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service
in 2013, making it available for download on our competitors&rsquo; devices. Tens of millions of iPhone and Android customers around the world have since downloaded BBM and
are enjoying the service free of charge. Last year we introduced our secure BES12 mobile device management software, once again designed to manage not just BlackBerry
phones but also available for enterprises and government agencies whose employees use iPhone and Android devices.
Unfortunately, not all content and applications providers have embraced openness and neutrality. Unlike BlackBerry, which allows iPhone users to download and use our
BBM service, Apple does not allow BlackBerry or Android users to download Apple&rsquo;s iMessage messaging service. Netflix, which has forcefully advocated for carrier
neutrality, has discriminated against BlackBerry customers by refusing to make its streaming movie service available to them. Many other applications providers
similarly offer service only to iPhone and Android users. This dynamic has created a two-tiered wireless broadband ecosystem, in which iPhone and Android users are
able to access far more content and applications than customers using devices running other operating systems. These are precisely the sort of discriminatory practices
that neutrality advocates have criticized at the carrier level.
Therefore, neutrality must be mandated at the application and content layer if we truly want a free, open and non-discriminatory internet. All wireless broadband
customers must have the ability to access any lawful applications and content they choose, and applications/content providers must be prohibited from discriminating
based on the customer&rsquo;s mobile operating system.

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