Waterloo Canada-based Blackberry announced its partnership with New Delhi, India-based Optiemus Infracom, an existing distribution partner for BlackBerry devices in the country. Blackberry will license device software and brand assets to Optiemus, which will design, manufacture, sell, promote, and support BlackBerry-branded devices in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Alex Thurber, senior vice president, general manager, Mobility Solutions at BlackBerry said, “India is a very important market for BlackBerry, so we are delighted our latest licensing partnership will extend the BlackBerry software experience to more customers and support the Indian government’s ‘Make In India’ agenda. This is an important milestone in our strategy to put ‘the smart in the phone’, providing state-of-the-art security and device software on a platform relevant to mobile customers, with more localization.”
BlackBerry will continue to control and develop its security and software solutions and maintain trusted BlackBerry security software, including regular Android security updates to the platform, reports telecomlead.
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
