The Hindu Business Line reports today that “the Department of Telecom has asked telecom operators not to provide certain features offered by Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry until monitoring systems are put in place.” It is not known what “certain” features are exactly, but “industry sources indicated that e-mails sent from one Blackberry to another Blackberry may be barred.”
Gee.. Emails huh? That’s all? Waittaminute.. isn’t that all one does with a Blackberry!?
Currently, talks are on directly between Research In Motion - owners of the Blackberry technology and the DoT after ‘GSM operators opted out of Blackberry talks‘
At a meeting held last week, RIM requested that it be allowed to discuss its plans to address the security concerns directly with Government authorities instead of going through the mobile operators. Sources said that RIM officials were concerned that since the topic of discussion was sensitive for security purposes, the proceedings of the meeting may be leaked out to the media in case the operators were also involved. While representatives of the various mobile operators were present during the meeting last week, RIM executives and DoT officers met separately in another room.
..Sources within the GSM camp said that with only 2 lakh Blackberry users, there is no crisis even if the service was banned. They also pointed out that there were many other handset devices available today which provides similar type of services though the security levels may not match up to that of a Blackberry.
So.. what’s the big fuss about again?
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