| INTRODUCTION → 1. The Planet Goes BlackBerry → 2. The Birth of the BlackBerry → 3. Lawsuits in Motion → → 4. From Brand to Icon → 5. BlackBerry Jam → 6. The Rise of the TeleBrain → |
| WELCOME / INDEX - SAMPLE CHAPTER → DEVICES → Image Gallery → Audio/Video → Texts & Docs → Web Links → Appendix → |
1987
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| Appendix - Glossary → Timeline → Financials → Growth → Patents | Cases → Bibliography → Partners Fund → Techno Telepathy |
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- 1987- Fifteen European telecom operators sign an agreement that leads to what is now the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the network standard that underlies GPRS, EDGE and 3G, and is the basis of 85% of today’s global mobile services market.
- 1987 - Mike Lazaridis attends a trade show where a company was showing how wireless data technology could remotely manage vending machines and delivery trucks for Coca-Cola. The Coke machines could call home when they needed servicing. Lazaridis realized that's what I wanted to do, and since then, that's all we've done," he said. "Frankly, we've never looked back."
- 1987 - RIM wins a contract to provide a 9.2 kbit/s one way pager for the Motorola DataTAC data network operated in Canada by Bell.
- 1987 - Toronto engineer Robert J. Fraser, working on contract with Toronto telecom company Rogers Cantel, invites Mike Lazaridis to have a look at Mobitex, a new open standard public access wireless wide-area data network being marketed by Sweden's LM Ericsson. Fraser asks him if Research in Motion could write software for the platform.
