The DoT on Friday has reportedly given two weeks to Research in Mobile (RIM) - the company that has developed Blackberry - to install servers and requisite equipment in India in order to tap e-mails sent through the service.
This was the message conveyed to the RIM representative in the country at a high level meeting in the department of telecommunications (DoT), which was chaired by the deputy director general (access services).
Officials from the ministry of home and representatives of Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance and Blackberry were also present in the meeting. The deadline for setting up this facility will be decided in a meeting scheduled next week, when high level officials of RIM from Canada will be present.
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RIM is currently operating services in 13 countries around the world. The present problem with Blackberry came to limelight when Tata Teleservices was not granted permission to operate the services. The government said that it was not possible to lawfully intercept e-mails sent through Blackberry phones. It is not yet clear how other operators like Reliance, Airtel and Vodafone are operating the services.
It is not clear. Not clear at all. The DoT website does not list any of these three as having obtained a UMS license. Does the ISP license imply a UMS license? Clearly not - since a UMS license requires a licensee to obtain, in addition, an ISP license.
So what happens next?More meetings.
Another meeting with RIM officials has been scheduled next week to discuss the issue further. In today’s meeting only a local sales representative of the company was present. “These are high level technical issues and hence the DoT officials today asked RIM representative to bring senior technical officials from Canada preferably by 2nd or 3rd of April for the next meeting,” said the industry representative.
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