For RIM, trouble in Indonesia is particularly painful as the country is the world's fastest-growing major BlackBerry market, according to industry statistics.
Subscriptions are expected to almost double from five million to 9.7 million by 2015, RIM says, as sales elsewhere tumble. Demand is driven by Indonesia's burgeoning middle class, drawn to the BlackBerry for affordable access to the Internet and widely used BlackBerry Messenger texting service.
Indonesia, Southeast Asia's most-populous nation of around 240 million people, is also the region's biggest economy and is forecast to have grown 6.5% in 2011.
Indonesians are some of the world's most active users of social network sites. Of 41 countries surveyed, it had the highest%age of Internet users accessing Twitter in June 2010, or more than 20% of its 45 million online population, online research firm comScore said.
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