New Delhi: After much controversy, has finally launched its BlackBerry server in Mumbai after intense pressure from the government to establish a system for lawful interception of its messenger services, and Nokia have been asked to follow this example to offer.
During a high-level meeting of EU interior ministry recently, knows officials from the security services that Canada-based Research in Motion, the servers installed in Mumbai.
The servers are controlled by a team of officers and authorization for direct link to the lawful interception is expected to be released, a presentation made at the meeting in the office of Interior Minister said.
Nokia Push Mail, including the Department of Telecom a similar policy as prescribed in the proceedings initiated by the BlackBerry, said the presentation.
The government and BlackBerry producers were in a stalemate over the security services in India and had raised a red flag about his activities with reference to non-availability of the method of delivery services and the company e-mail to intercept.
There was a climb down by the government to intercept e-mail with BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES), which decodes the message and sends it to the e-mail server provider, where it is stored in decrypted form. So the message is pushed to the BlackBerry device in encrypted form.
DOT secretary said that there are currently around 5000 Enterprise Servers for BES. Director, Intelligence Bureau Nehchal Sandhu noted that this communication between company employees only, and therefore not "serious concern" for safety or intelligence.
"But, it was decided to list and location of servers in the telecommunications providers to achieve" the presentation said.
RIM representatives had explained that the BlackBerry mobile device, the encrypted e-mail sent to BES located with the service provider sends.
The government had said that the burden of providing access to safety information about these smartphones is to follow the service.
Under the license, providers are subject to a system that provides security services for a call or a notification of each subscriber to pick up when needed.
As telecom operators like Airtel, Vodafone, RCom, the Tata and the government-run BSNL and MTNL offers BlackBerry services, it is the responsibility of these operators to ensure that the security services access to all services they offer to come.
RIM has operations in 175 countries.
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