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Indian Telecom department (DoT) threatens of shutting down the blackberry services by December 31st if the local mobile operators do not enable monitoring and government intervention, as reported by Hindu Business Line.
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM) had set up a local server in Mumbai since last February to allow Indian security agencies to monitor data flow between its BlackBerry Internet browsing and Messenger services. Since the local operators have been failing to stick to the deadline the DOT has announced of the deadline.
It cited of an internal DoT memo which read "The BlackBerry Interception Solution shall be deployed and offered for testing to the respective Telecom Enforcement, Resource, and Monitoring Cells on or before Dec. 31, in such a manner that the services can be intercepted in a readable format.”Failing the successful demonstration, the BlackBerry services shall be restrained to be offered to subscribers from Jan. 1, 2013."
The Indian government’s move to intervene with the blackberry services has been going on for two years now. The government in August 2010 threatened to block RIM's BlackBerry services if it was denied access.
Besides BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBerry Messenger, the Canadian smartphone maker also offers an e-mail client BlackBerry Enterprise Service, but it said it was unable to provide a technical solution for this service to be monitored. As a workaround, Indian security agencies would have to track all individual servers set up by corporations using this service.
DOT threatens of shutting down blackberry services
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM) had set up a local server in Mumbai since last February to allow Indian security agencies to monitor data flow between its BlackBerry Internet browsing and Messenger services. Since the local operators have been failing to stick to the deadline the DOT has announced of the deadline.
It cited of an internal DoT memo which read "The BlackBerry Interception Solution shall be deployed and offered for testing to the respective Telecom Enforcement, Resource, and Monitoring Cells on or before Dec. 31, in such a manner that the services can be intercepted in a readable format.”Failing the successful demonstration, the BlackBerry services shall be restrained to be offered to subscribers from Jan. 1, 2013."
The Indian government’s move to intervene with the blackberry services has been going on for two years now. The government in August 2010 threatened to block RIM's BlackBerry services if it was denied access.
Besides BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBerry Messenger, the Canadian smartphone maker also offers an e-mail client BlackBerry Enterprise Service, but it said it was unable to provide a technical solution for this service to be monitored. As a workaround, Indian security agencies would have to track all individual servers set up by corporations using this service.
DOT threatens of shutting down blackberry services
