This is about time that Blackberry opened up the BBM network.
BlackBerry is making its smartphone messaging service BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) available on Google's Android and Apple's iPhone from this weekend - marking a radical shift for the company which once relied on BBM's exclusivity to sell phones.
The releases will be the first time that BBM, the original non-SMS-based phone messaging service, has been available on a non-BlackBerry phone.
BBM was a crucial tool for attracting and retaining users on BlackBerry's platform. Introduced in [WHEN?] it grew to be used by the company's subscribers, which peaked at 80m around September 2012 but since then have declined to around 70m.
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