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2002 ANNUAL REPORT RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
TECHNOLOGY
RIM continues to be recognized as the innovator and industry leader in wireless data technology and
enterprise software. This year RIM opened its new state-of-the-art Research and Development (R&D) facility
in Waterloo. The facility is complete with industry leading research, testing and certification labs that will
facilitate new product development and help speed time to market of these new products. We now have
approximately 600 technical personnel in our three facilities in Waterloo, Kanata and Toronto, with the
majority based in Waterloo. Gross R&D expenditures for fiscal 2002 increased to $49.5 million from $25.7
million in the previous year and we continue to invest to maintain our technological lead in the market.
This year, we successfully launched GPRS-enabled handhelds in Europe, North America and Asia,
launched integrated voice and data handhelds for the corporate market, completed the development
of
a CDMA/1XRTT BlackBerry handheld, and launched a GPRS OEM radio modem. RIM also announced
an agreement to work with Nextel and Motorola,
™Inc. to develop and produce a BlackBerry handheld
for Nextel’s nationwide iDEN network and the development of a BlackBerry reference design program
to expand the scope of BlackBerry to include additional form factors and market segments.
RIM has now made its Java Development Environment (JDE) available, which will make it easy for the
more than 3 million Java developers worldwide to build applications to support BlackBerry. This year,
RIM also formed a number of partnerships to bring enterprise applications such as Customer Relationship
Management, Sales Force Automation and Business Intelligence to BlackBerry.
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GSM/GPRS CARRIER
PARTNERSHIPS FOR BLACKBERRY:
AT&T Wireless (United States)
VoiceStream (United States)
Rogers AT&T Wireless (Canada)
mm02 (UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany)
Vodafone (UK)
T-Mobile (Germany)
Telecom Italia Mobile (Italy)
Hutchison Telecom (Hong Kong)
Telstra (Australia)
Source: GSM Association. www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml
GLOBAL GSM AVAILABILITY
GLOBAL GSM AVAILABILITY
GSM AVAILABLE