Airtel & Tata Tele Send BlackBerry Compliance Reports to DoT

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 23 September 2010, 22:15 IST   |    2 Comments
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Airtel & Tata Tele Send BlackBerry Compliance Reports to DoT
Bangalore: Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices have sent compliance reports to India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT), confirming they have upgraded their networks to allow local security agencies to intercept and monitor messenger messages sent through BlackBerry smartphones. Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM) offers its popular BlackBerry services in India through the networks of local mobile phone operators such as Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices. India has been worried that the heavily encrypted BlackBerry services such as messenger and corporate email could be used by terrorists and has asked RIM to come up with tools to allow India's security agencies to monitor those services. The networks were tested by a joint team of the operator security agencies and RIM the first person told Dow Jones Newswires. Both people said the testing reports were considered as "compliance" reports.

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