[qwerty4ever]

If I could get BES and use Balance I'd pay $19 a year for a hosted plan....

Add in some cloud storage, full featured email hosting and there is no doubt that BlackBerry could get a lot of individuals and small business to sign up. As long as it is a reasonable fee... $100 a year of all of that would be fine.


With the cost involved in equipment, software and licenses.... Even a small company will find hosted email much cheaper than doing it all themselves. Google Business and OutLook.com both now have $5 per month hosted email, very cheap if you only have say 40 users.

BlackBerry has been promoting its up coming BlackBerry Cloud Service which provides hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server for a small monthly fee. I am not certain whether hosted Microsoft Exchange Server is included. Plus there are third-party vendors offering hosted BES10 & MSEX2010 service packages.