Many of BlackBerry Ltd.'s mobile phones will stop reliably working on Tuesday after the company decommissions several of its services.
The Waterloo, Ont.-based business is decommissioning services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, as it transitions away from producing phones and toward being a software company.
The decommissioning will not impact BlackBerry phones running on Android software, but means devices running the company's legacy services and software through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer have reliable data, phone call, text message and 9-1-1 functionality.