RIM president and CEO Thorsten Heins said the company is likely to report an operating loss for its next financial quarter, ending 2 June, with “lower volumes and highly competitive pricing dynamics in the marketplace” impacting the business.

Heins reiterated that the troubled company is undergoing a “significant transformation” as it moved towards the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 OS meaning “financial performance will continue to be challenging for the next few quarters."

The RIM CEO made the comments during a business update, which is part of his previous pledge to provide “candid and timely updates when possible on the progress and challenges RIM is experiencing."

RIM’s well-documented struggles saw it report a profit of US$1.2 billion for the year ended 3 March 2012, down from US$3.4 billion in the prior-year period. This was on revenue of US$18.4 billion, down from US$19.9 billion. RIM’s Q1 financial results for quarter ending will be published in 28 June.

Heins confirmed that the company has enlisted JP Morgan and RMB Capital Markets to help it evaluate various financial strategies, including “opportunities to leverage the BlackBerry platform through partnerships, licensing opportunities and strategic business model alternatives."

RIM is continuing to be “aggressive” as it competes for both enterprise and consumer customers, according to Heins, with its development team "working hard to provide cost-competitive, feature-rich solutions to our global customer base."

The company’s cost optimisation and resource efficiency programme, aimed at achieving US£1 billion in savings by the end of fiscal 2013, will continue to review RIM’s organisational structure and business processes.

RIM is reportedly cutting 2,000 jobs globally, while its global head of sales Patrick Spence and chief legal officer Karima Bawa both recently left the company. The company has however appointed a new COO and chief marketing officer.

Positive areas highlighted by the RIM CEO included encouraging responses to previews of BlackBerry 10 at the recent BlackBerry World conference and the global subscriber base rising to 78 million during the period, with international markets being the main driver for growth. However, this was partially offset by higher churn in the US.