RIM approaches BlackBerry ban deadline from India

Research in Motion will not give up in front of India’s government pressures to loosen it’s services security. RIM wants to set up a forum where the company  itself and other mobile services providers could find solutions to problems such as Indian law enforcement agencies having certain access to mobile data transmissions without violating privacy and the communication security of corporations and different agencies in India. RIM is world wide known for it’s corporate communications security and making it’s services to have a lower degree of protection just to please governmental needs to control telecommunications. India gave Research in Motion the limit of  September 1, if there’s no decision taken in the discussion with Indian government to provide access to e-mail, instant messages, and Web browsing , by the end of August some of RIM’s  BlackBerry services are to be banned. The main reason for this  BlackBerry ban in India as in  United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia and Indonesia is governmental limitations in monitoring dangerous communications.

To prevent being considered to have a disagreement with India, or any other country involved in ” BlackBerry ban ” deal , RIM sustains that they do not have any “master key” to decrypt any corporate information claiming that their system is based on exclusively no access for both RIM and any other third party , to read encrypted information.

In a statement, RIM  said that Indian companies will suffer if the government keeps it’s promises to ban BlackBerry services starting September 1:

“If the government banned the encrypted communication,would severely limit the effectiveness and productivity of India’s corporations.”

“This challenge can only be truly overcome if the information and communications technology industry comes together as a whole to work with the government of India,” RIM said in a statement. “The use of strong encryption in wireless technology is not unique to the BlackBerry platform. It is unquestionably an industrywide matter.”

Source : CNET