Buying Blackberry's in China

[manny999]

Could anyone advise me as to where I could purchase blackberry's for our China Office. I would ideally like to source them in China if that's not possible I would like to buy unlocked blackberry's. Please let me know of suppliers in China or of suppliers who can sell unlocked blackberry's in the UK.

[hchai]

AFAIK, there is no official BB existence in China. In order to get BES access, they have to use BB purchased from abroad (mostly Hong Kong) and roam all the time. The fee for data roaming isn't too bad, at least in a corp view. However, voice charge adds up very quick. At $1-3/min, a user can easily get a several thousand doller bill each month.

Read a news somewhere that China Mobile has/will launch native BB service in China, but haven't really look into it.

[shadie]

黑莓在中国,BlackBerry Coming in China (http://www.blackberrychina.cn/indexen.htm)

[Assaf]

The shanghai company mention in the thread is china mobile or private firm?

Need to have business certificate or not for registering?

Thanks