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FISCAL 2000-2002
In addition, RIM announced relationships with a number of other carriers in Europe and North America
and an agreement with Hutchison Telecom to bring BlackBerry to Asia for the first time. By embracing
J2ME, we have also expanded the base of developers working on applications for BlackBerry and
announced relationships with such enterprise software companies as SAP, Siebel Systems, Xerox and
Cognos. Our CDMA/1XRTT handhelds are currently being tested with carriers, our new 197,000
square foot manufacturing facility is up and running, and RIM is now completely operational on SAP.
FINANCE
The economic environment during fiscal 2002 was challenging as enterprise spending slowed across
a number of industry sectors. In addition, the complexities of next-generation network rollouts proved
to be significant. Several carriers were forced to delay the commercialization of these networks and
consequently their GSM/GPRS BlackBerry deployments. Despite these challenges, RIM’s revenues
grew at a healthy 33% from $221 million to $294 million. This growth was largely driven by the
dominance of BlackBerry as the preferred wireless enterprise messaging solution in North America
and continued sales of BlackBerry and RIM handhelds for Mobitex/DataTAC®networks.
2002 ANNUAL REPORT RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
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