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RIM, Apple phone 'duopoly' faces pressure -Rogers



15 September 2009 @ 11:30 am ET

TORANTO - Research In Motion and Apple Inc's "duopoly" in the smartphone market will be pressured by other handset makers eager to capture share, the head of Canada's biggest wireless carrier said on Tuesday.


RIM, Apple phone 'duopoly' faces pressure -Rogers
Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive of Research In Motion (RIM), holds the new Blackberry Bold handset during its launch in Mumbai September 18, 2008. AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it would sell the BlackBerry Bold from Research In Motion Ltd for $299, or 50 percent more than it charges for Apple Inc's iPhone. (Reuters Photo / Punit Paranjpe)
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Rob Bruce, the president of Rogers Communications' wireless business, said he expects that phones with full slideout keyboards, as well as those based on Google's Android operating system, will chip away at the dominance of RIM's BlackBerry and Apple's popular iPhone.

(Reporting by Wojtek Dabrowski; editing by Peter Galloway)

Copyright 2009 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.

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