India rejected on Monday Research In Motion’s (RIM) offer to allow it only partial access to its BlackBerry data services as neighbouring Pakistan also moved to restrict the popular smartphone’s services.
It was not immediately clear what the Indian government, which says it is driven by security concerns, would now do after the Canadian smartphone maker failed to fulfil demands to monitor encrypted corporate email by a January 31 deadline. RIM had previously said was confident India would not ban its services.
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BlackBerry maker risks Indian ban BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) could be kicked out of India, one of the world’s fastest-growing mobile markets, after the government refused to accept 11th-hour security concessions on access to users’ emails and messages.
India on Monday rejected an offer from RIM which would have given it partial access to the country’s 400,000 BlackBerry users’ messages and email. It is the latest instalment in a three-year struggle in which the government has sought to be able to read communications to BlackBerry devices, citing security fears and claims that they were used in the 2008 Mumbai killings. www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/31/blackberry-maker-rim-india
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