According to TechGadgets the BlackBerry has been banned in India. India’s Union Home Ministry recently rejected Tata Teleservices application for offering BlackBerry Service to it's citizens.
The reason seems to be that there is not a server in India that the Indian government can use to monitor activity. It looks like Big Brother in India wants to be aware of what is going on in their citizen's inbox.
India's National paper The Hindu says, "Citing security reasons, the Union Home Ministry wants access to all communications made through a mobile device at any given time, which is not done now in the case of BlackBerry device which works through a server and data is transferred in an encrypted format. As Blackberry does not allow for any interception, the Centre sees this as a security threat, particularly in the current scenario where terrorist organisations are using the Internet to communicate."
The reason seems to be that there is not a server in India that the Indian government can use to monitor activity. It looks like Big Brother in India wants to be aware of what is going on in their citizen's inbox.
India's National paper The Hindu says, "Citing security reasons, the Union Home Ministry wants access to all communications made through a mobile device at any given time, which is not done now in the case of BlackBerry device which works through a server and data is transferred in an encrypted format. As Blackberry does not allow for any interception, the Centre sees this as a security threat, particularly in the current scenario where terrorist organisations are using the Internet to communicate."
