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Lagos – Leading Telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has become the first service provider to create a special Blackberry Messenger (BBM) bundle for the teeming number of Nigerians who now use the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) for Android and iPhones. This bundle provides great opportunity and access for Airtel customers to chat with friends, family and loved ones, as much as they want with the monthly plans, which allow unrestricted data usage for BBM-related activity within a 30-day subscription window.

Finally the much anticipated collabo between RIM, the makers of BlackBerry and Google, the brain behind Android has come to be with the official release of their BBM on different platforms ranging from iOS to the Android OS. This means that with your Apple device (iPhone), you can now ping with someone using a BlackBerry device without any restriction. The same thing also applies to any android device with a higher version of the OS, ranging from HTC, Galaxy, Techno and any device that runs the android OS.

I am really happy that RIM and Google has finally come to terms concerning the BBM on Android platform. Enough of this RIM nonsense. Why on earth will a company want to sell virtually everything to their customers? Few things are free and even the free things are not completely free, one string or the other is always attached. Looking at things from the android angle, there are thousand and one websites where one can download virtually every application one need without paying for them. One thing why people are attached to BlackBerry in this part of the world is just BBM feature but the good news is, this same BBM will soon be available on Android OS and iOS devices and so rendering the BlackBerry device useless from my angle. Talking about paying for subcription, I don't know how that will be but I know that it will be working as a third party application and as such will depend on the internet data plan that the housing device is using, just as 2go and Whatsapp.