Research in Motion claims its BlackBerry handsets were the best-selling in the UK for the second year running.
The latest data shows that the troubled BlackBerry averaged 27.7 per cent market share in 2011, and that it hit 8.5 million UK subscribers. Worldwide the number of subscribers grew by 35 per cent year on year, to 75 million in December 2011, driven by growth among young people and in the developing world.
BlackBerry Managing Director for the UK and Ireland, Stephen Bates, said that RIM had dominated pre-paymarket in particular. “We’ve moved the market up by around 40 per cent by offering a proposition people can see the value in,” he said.

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