Blackberry & DoT locking horns

It happens only in India!!
The executives of RIM must have realized this in a nasty way. Nowhere else in the world have any governments asked the Blackberry to reduce encryption levels so that the government can spy on what their citizens are mailing each other & to the outside world.

The DoT (Department of Telecom) officials seem to have realized bit late how their supercilious demand will impact the entire E-Commerce industry. For an economy that has risen to power on the back of information technology industry, such a move will for sure send wrong signals to the rest of the world. Hence they have started a backing off action such that the government's face is not lost.

We need to wait & watch what these babus are going to do. The Canadian High Commission backing RIM is not doing any good to them.

On the other hand, RIM, well aware of the fact that India is the world's fastest growing mobile market & already having half a million customers, is discussing with Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) the various possible solutions for the encryption issue & for setting up a Blackberry server within India.

I'll be tracking this story & post updates as & when they arrive.