Although there’s little glory in bronze, BlackBerry and Microsoft are battling for third position in the smartphone market.

While BlackBerry users have been reconnected with BBM and their emails, there were still problems accessing the internet via the smartphone.

After facing customer criticism, Vodacom has changed its mind about slowing down its BlackBerry internet services.

Vodacom’s decision to throttle the download speeds of heavy-use Blackberry customers is arguably in breach of the "spirit of the CPA", experts say.

Vodacom plans to throttle the connection speeds of the heaviest users of BlackBerry Internet Service, which offers unlimited on-device browsing.