India gives RIM until January 31 to meet compliance standards

By on Oct 12, 2010 at 1:08 PM
General October 12, 2010

Canadian handset manufacturer Research In Motion, fresh-off a recent victory(?) in the UAE, has been given a hard deadline by the nation of India to comply with the country’s intelligence laws. According to minutes for a recent meeting between RIM and the Indian government:

RIM would be asked to adhere to the timeline of January 2011 to give the final solution wherein lawful access for BlackBerry messenger will not involve the overseas data path. Intelligence Bureau (IB) and National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), which had attended the discussions, found that the solutions offered by RIM (for BlackBerry messenger) are prime-facie agreeable. The timelines of January 2011 were also agreeable.

Presumably — as they did in the UAE — RIM will setup BlackBerry infrastructure within India’s borders in order to assuage concerns about international intelligence sovereignty. Previously, RIM called banning BlackBerry use in India “futile,” but it looks as though the handset manufacturer will agree to the governments prerequisites in order to continue operating in the second most populous country; population: 1.18 billion.

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  • Steve Jabroni

    I don’t know why I just thought of this, but I wish Steve Jobs would go work for RIM, even as a consultant or independent contractor, just so that one day I could see the headline,
    “Apple gives RIM Jobs”

  • Logicknot

    I approve of the appove message.

  • RottenApple

    Can’t believe third world countries try to put restrictions on rim. Really ? Do you wanna go back to rotary phone also ?

    • Ayle

      It’s their country. They can do whatever the hell they want in it. If RIM doesn’t agree with the laws then they can stop making business in those countries. Yet they caved in in Saudi Arabia and in the UEA, and they will cave in in India to. Tells you a lot about they “ethics”. This is a perfect example of “Money talks, BS walks.”

      • Tdot34

        What does ethics have to do with it. RIM is the ONLY mobile phone company that has any sort of security, so when they get knocked down to a level that is still way above the competition in terms of security, people complain. Only the government has access to view the data, no one else. Where is HTC’s or Apple’s ethics in having absolutely no security, a 12 year old could hack into iOS and find sensitive data if you lost your phone.

        Not to mention the US and other governments have had access to the information for a long time. These countries just want the same deal. You’d have to be completely naive to think the US would allow RIM to operate without allowing the NSA, FBI, CIA or homeland security snoop around. American citizens are watched as much as Saudi’s.

        If you owned a company would you sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars because other countries just want the same treatment as the large Western Nations, of course not, you would work with them like RIM is doing, to ensure seamless operation.

      • PAPINYC

        Don’t forget the TSA and ICE; and, The Secret Service, too. While you’re at it, throw a bone to the IRS.

    • Danno

      Well the either Put out or Get Out! RIM needs to regain Market( Android and iOS ) and i Guess India and all of those so called third countries you re mocking … Nowadays have the biggest market growth . let’s put it so that your 1st world Ignorant brain can understand ….

      Big population , means Big market…. they may not have enough money for food but they really want Cellphones!!!!!

      http://www.wirelessintelligence.com/analysis/2010/07/global-mobile-connections-surpass-5-billion-milestone

  • Shexo

    Who or what is India?

    • StevenHamburg

      native americans

  • PAPINYC

    India should give RIM some roti and let ‘by-gones be by-gones’, instead of giving out these RIM jobz’.

  • PAPINYC

    By the way, what are the indians so worried about, their customer service will still suck on February 1st!

  • TheBivMan

    Do you really need a Blackberry, or any smart phone for that matter, to do jobs that other countries outsource?

  • max

    RIM is so back-asswards it doesn’t even work in a third world country.

    • lurch

      “back-asswords” fail.

  • megamanexent

    @Tdot34,
    You are going to have to show some sources. Those countries want unrestricted access to RIM’s infrastructure (or so I belive) At most, the US could only ask a judge to give a warrent for that information and RIM really doesn’t need to even obey, at a market consequence of course. the point is RIM didn’t have to “come into compliance” to work in the US.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • JRoadZ

    So India only wants access to BBM? Or did I read that article incorrectly? BlackBerry Messenger or Messages?

  • Bigboss

    The above is one of the reasons why India has been able to prevent those f—-ing Islamists from landing planes on Indian buildings. Something so called “advanced” America has not been able to prevent.

    • TheBivMan

      America hasn’t been able to prevent “those f—-ing Islamists” from landing planes on Indian buildings huh?

  • vijay

    RIM won’t allow Indian govt. to track their messaging servers. Maybe it is not that Important for America but for India security is paramount.

    India and China combined, represents 1/3 of the world so RIM will eventually bow down.

    American market is more or less saturated and Asia is future. I hope you learnt that last year.

  • Mitch

    Who gives a crap?

    India is a miserable third-world country with more people than food that can be supplied.

  • http://www.gsmdrive.com Ramesh

    This is not really surprising. RIM has a lot of market it India. They will have to make this sacrifice to make sure they are not kicked out.

  • Bigboss

    To Mitch:
    you will eventually come to work for India once you lose your jobs here in America. Then we’ll see you crap.

  • lover-of-irony

    It’s such a shame to see that the same type of people who have made any and all of the discussions on Engadget racist or puerile have shown up on BGR too.

    #Mitch, #Shexo, #TheBivMan all appear to live in some kind of hermetically sealed bubble. Maybe they should spend a few minutes with Google Maps, see that the World is bigger than they give it credit.

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