T-Mobile Will Stop Carrying BlackBerry Smartphones In-Store

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Posted September 25, 2013 at 11:06pm by Shalom Levytam

T-Mobile U.S. plans to stop carrying BlackBerry smartphones in its stores and will instead ship the devices directly to customers who order them, reports Reuters.

David Carey, executive vice president for corporate services told Reuters about the plan on Wednesday, a few days after BlackBerry said it would no longer market to consumers because of drastically weakening smartphone sales.

According to Carey, "keeping stock in the retail distribution system was inefficient" since they have not been in high demand and most BlackBerry devices are purchased by businesses and not in-store customers.

"Therefore we will display and sell it in the store for those consumers who would like to see one," he added.

BlackBerry announced a devastating loss of nearly $1 billion last quarter and just signed a letter of intent to be acquired by Fairfax for $4.7 billion.

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Nick - September 26, 2013 at 6:46pm

RIM firing employees over ideas they had to better BB and stifling innovation before is the reason they are collapsing, too little too late for them. And for those who are asking what I'm talking about, there was a letter a RIM higher up sent out stating that they are killing themselves by firing people that have ideas, because everyone was then too afraid to be creative and show their own ideas for fear of being fired. The change in RIM came too late.

Anthony - September 26, 2013 at 11:45am

#HatersGonnaHate

DNA64 - September 26, 2013 at 8:26am

They should have ditched BBOS on went Android.

*went

DNA64 - September 26, 2013 at 8:28am

ffs...*And went .... I'm going to sleep lol

gamerscul9870 - September 26, 2013 at 2:31am

Soon... competitors. 1 down 4 to go (samsung htc Nokia Sony)

TheRealNoGoodNick - September 26, 2013 at 3:20am

I meant until they stop trying to beat apple or if they run out of ideas unless they just make something useful for something else, like songs watch to their consoles for example!

Stevenk - September 26, 2013 at 3:24am

If every competitor is out, You will have the same iphone with same features for next 30 years untill iPhone 30M or iPhone 30S comes out.

APPLE QUALITY - September 26, 2013 at 1:39am

Bye bye blackberry Motorola Htc Sony Samsung etc. Stay iPhone For life

Ron Dean - September 26, 2013 at 1:11am

Another nail in the coffin.