Hey fellow BB users on nairaland, let's chat via the BlackBerry messenger,

Will you pay my data usage? Don't forget, even though its an embedded application, you are still using bandwidth access. It's not like the PIN transmission which is routed via RIM bacckbone network. Data on BB Messenger is considered rate traffic.

Negro_Ntns:

Will you pay my data usage? Don't forget, even though its an embedded application, you are still using bandwidth access. It's not like the PIN transmission which is routed via RIM bacckbone network. Data on BB Messenger is considered rate traffic.

Blackberry messenger which uses the BB PIN for chatting purposes uses minimum data. I've used BB's for a very longtime & currently use it in chatting with my woman visiting 9ja at the moment plus I've friends in 9ja that use BB's messenger to chat with me. It's uses data from your monthly BB data subscription & if you don't feel like chatting via the BB messenger in-order to minimize your data use that's okay.
Cheers!

Blackberry messenger which uses the BB PIN for chatting purposes uses minimum data

That keyword was missing in OP. You notice I referenced the point you rebutted with

It's not like the PIN transmission

For someone familiar with BB, it is easy to assume, unless it was qualified differently, that the originalpost was not inferring rate traffic on the messenger.

Thanks for clarification.