RE: RE: RE: RE: Canadian Tire? - Subs Numbers zlatno and newday1
These are the last two paragraghs of page 8 from 2013's, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Please read these paragraghs and let me know how they read for you. I take it as as long as devices are accessing either BIS or BES even though no fees are collected they will bi included in their user base. I see this as the subscriber numbers can have the ability to increase even though service revenue will decrease. Thanks in advance.
https://press.blackberry.com/content/dam/rim/press/PDF/Financial/FY2013/Q4FY13_final_filing.pdf
"Prior to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, the Company identified the BlackBerry subscriber account base as the total of all subscriber accounts that had an active status at the end of a reporting period. Each carrier instructed the Company to create subscriber accounts and determine whether each subscriber account should have an active status. Each carrier is charged a service fee for each BlackBerry 6 and BlackBerry 7 subscriber account each month, with substantially all of such service fees having no regard to the amount of data traffic that the subscriber account passes over the BlackBerry architecture. If a carrier instructed the Company to deactivate a subscriber account, then the Company no longer included that subscriber account in its BlackBerry subscriber account base and ceased billing the carrier with respect to such account from the date of notification of its deactivation. It is each carrier’s
contractual responsibility to report changes to its subscriber account status on a timely basis to the Company. The number of subscriber accounts is a non-financial metric and is intended to highlight the change in the Company’s subscriber base and should not be relied upon as an indicator of the Company’s financial performance.
To reflect the changes described above, and to better address possible future strategies and service and software revenue opportunities related to an integrated services and software offering for the BlackBerry 10 mobile computing platform, starting in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, the Company has adjusted the methodology it uses to calculate the size of its subscriber base. Rather than calculating the total of all subscriber accounts that have an active status at the end of a reporting period and for which infrastructure access fees are thereby generated, the Company currently identifies its BlackBerry subscriber base as the total of all BlackBerry subscriber accounts that are provisioned to access BlackBerry services, regardless of whether the Company is receiving infrastructure access fees from each such subscriber in any given month. The Company believes this change will better reflect the base of BlackBerry users that may contribute to service revenues in the future, whether solely through infrastructure access fees or the integrated service and software offering being developed."
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