Research In Motion today announced that BlackBerry subscribers have passed the 3 million mark. It was just six months ago that BlackBerry topped 2 million and 15 months since one million, making the growth even more impressive.

“It’s an exciting time as BlackBerry continues to enjoy enormous success and rapid growth around the world,” said Jim Balsillie, Chairman and Co-CEO, Research In Motion. “With over 50,000 retail points of presence, accelerated geographic expansion and the anticipated addition of 100 new carriers in 2005, we are scaling our operations for the five million and 10 million subscriber milestones.”