India puts a ban on certain Blackberry services

The Indian government has now directed the telecom companies in the market to block certain services provided to the users of Blackberry devices.

This ban would remain in place till the service providers put up the requisite monitoring systems in place.

The government had earlier raised its objection to the RIM Blackberry services as they said that some of the services could not be monitored and hence were a security concern.

Indian government representative Jyotiraditya Scindia said in a statement: “Instructions have been issued to all mobile service providers, inter alia, asking them not to connect or provide/run certain BlackBerry services unless the required monitoring systems are in place.”

Cellular Operators Association of India Director General T.V. Ramachandran responded on this directive: “We will abide by whatever the government requires. We have no issue.”