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India will not Ban BlackBerry at this Time

MG Siegler
Friday, March 14th, 2008
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Rumors that India will ban Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry service were quashed by the top official in the telecoms ministry today. Security agencies are concerned the service poses a risk because emails sent using the device cannot be traced or intercepted.

“There is no question of banning at this point,” Telecoms Secretary Siddhartha Behura told reporters on the sidelines of an industry conference.

“We are not interested that we say BlackBerry will not used in this country,” he said, adding the telecoms department was “very keen” the services should continue.

“The interactions are going on with various stakeholders including the home ministry … I do believe it will be resolved,” Telecoms Minister Andimuthu Raja said

RIM officials have been told of the department of telecoms concerns. Government officials will meet with representatives of the four mobile phone service providers who offer BlackBerry in India, Behura said.

Sector leader Bharti Airtel Ltd (BRTI.BO), No. 2 Reliance Communications Ltd (RLCM.BO), Vodafone Plc- (VOD.L) controlled Vodafone Essar Ltd and privately held BPL Mobile provide the service in India.

“We want operators to talk to BlackBerry people and put pressure on them to provide the necessary and satisfactory answers to security agencies. That is what we are talking to them,” Behura said.

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  • Ryan

    I think there would be more interest and participation of developers if they had chosen to extend the functionality of Google Wave with NLP than Gmail.

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    Great …!! The semantic web platform, OpenAmplify, is today launching its new community area to encourage more collaboration in developing semantic tools for the web. And alongside the launch, it has a new promotion to hopefully improve Gmail.

  • http://community.openamplify.com Mike Petit

    Thanks for the shout out, MG. I’d just like to add that we are placing particular emphasis upon project-oriented collaboration. We believe that, by providing the means of organizing projects and supporting them with our own resources, we can get real-world applications out there in quantity. The Semantic Web needs ammo: practical apps available to all. Our community will try to meet that need.

  • http://community.openamplify.com Mike Petit

    Hi Ryan -

    Perhaps we’ll do that, too :-)

    Could I ask you to come to the community site and open up a discussion on that idea, with your ideas as to how OpenAmplify and Wave could be integrated? Let’s see if it gets traction. We do intend to launch more challenges, so your idea could take off.

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