Indian Government Gets Ready To Ban Blackberry
Last month, we reported that the Indian government was threatening to ban Blackberry along with a host of other services like Gmail and Skype. Reuters is now reporting that, the government of India of India will meet with telecom operators tomorrow to seek concrete measures.
Like Saudi Arabia, India also wants instant access to encrypted messages sent using Blackberry devices, which were reportedly used by terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Similar demands have also been made by United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, and Germany. In fact, the Indian government had also made similar demands in 2008.
RIM’s recent decision to grant the Saudi government access to local servers, will undoubtedly encourage the Indian government to take a stronger stance. At tomorrow’s meeting, the Indian government might issue a deadline for RIM to comply with the demands. In case the Indian government goes through the ban, RIM stands to lose 1 million subscribers in a country where the iPhone is still struggling to make an impact.
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RIM cannot afford to lose on the market share it enjoys in the Sub Continent.
All this while they tried to buy time by giving stories which are hard to digest in the current scenario of IT development.
Now that they literally got a hit from the Eastern / South world at the right place they have started squirming on their seats.
High time the Western World shakes up and take realize that India is a Growing Economy and is a big market foolish enough to be lost.