New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) India Monday said it will insist on getting the key to intercept Blackberry’s enterprise mail from the smart phone’s Canadian-manufacturer Research-in-Motion (RIM).
The government-set deadline for RIM to provide the key to intercept enterprise mail was Monday.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram said a decision on allowing BlackBerry’s enterprise mail would be taken soon.
‘I think a decision will be taken today (Monday) by the home ministry and the telecom ministry. I have not yet been briefed on the development in the last few days. As I said, like they have given us a solution to the messenger service, we will insist that they give us solution for the enterprise (mail) service too,’ Chidambaram said here after presenting his ministry’s monthly report.
Chidambaram’s remarks come in the wake of RIM saying it was not possible for it to provide the Indian government an access to its the enterprise mail service.
‘There is no possibility of us providing any kind of a solution. There is no solution, there are no keys to be handed… It’s not possible to do so because the keys of the service are in possession of the corporate enterprises,’ said RIM Vice-President (Industry, Government and University Relations) Robert E. Crow earlier.
Security agencies have been demanding access to all BlackBerry services as part of efforts to fight terror and security threats.
