In light of RIM’s ‘Be Bold’ ad campaign one could easily argue that consistent up-time / no extended network outages (such as the one that hit late last year) would be a requisite step towards ‘still being sold’ on this grandfather of a handset as opposed to ditching it all-together (which is happening with growing frequency).
No offense but this firm is increasingly becoming an ‘also-ran’ within the Smartphone space as Apple and Google’s OS garner the vast majority of application development; updated handsets and industry attention, etc.
(Source) Engadget: http://goo.gl/RmeDR