Will the BlackBerry split itself up for sale?

The potential investor's approach to the BlackBerry is ambiguous, with high quality assets such as BlackBerry portfolio patents and security information platforms, as well as a whispered of the financial and asset conditions of the Sunset smartphone brand. Few buyers are willing to buy it wholly. The BlackBerry's patent value is likely to be between 2 billion and 5 billion dollars, depending on whether the BlackBerry is sold wholly or through cross licensing to different buyers. Analysts estimate that its service and security information platform business is valued at 3 billion to 4.5 billion dollars. Combined with the BlackBerry's $3.1 billion trillion in cash assets and related investments, this is a large list, much higher than its current market valuation of $5.374 billion trillion. But who's willing to pay? "I think the company may have to be split into different plates for sale to the right buyer," he said. Said Brian Blair, analyst at Wedge. "Both patent and hardware production have their value, but the BlackBerry OS value is negligible." The BlackBerry is anxious to sell itself because it fears that the November and February markets may have big variables, which could depress their prices. "Unless its major shareholder Fairfax Financial can privatize the BlackBerry, its history as a complete company may be over, Fairfax Financial and BlackBerry declined to comment.