BSNL will launch its BlackBerry services by next month.BSNL chairman and managing director Kuldeep Goyal said “We have got all the approvals … and will launch BlackBerry services by April,” on the sidelines of the programme ‘Convergence India’ in New Delhi.
At present, four telecom operators – Reliance Communications, Airtel, Vodafone and Tata Teleservices – are providing BlackBerry services.BlackBerry phones offer a host of services, including allowing users to access their e-mail on the move.
BlackBerry services had earlier come under scrutiny after Indian security agencies expressed concern that the data being transmitted through the device could not be intercepted due to the high encryption codes being used by the company.
Robin March 20, 2009 at 10:22 am
Sanjay Bafna you are right,But in my opinion BSNL never did ground work before 3G launch if it was done these kind of issues may not have happened.
Sanjay Bafna March 20, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Dear Robin,May be your opinion is diffrent but When i dig everything related to that and find that there is No fault of security issue at the end of BSNL, The call Monitoring equipment updation is the job of security agencies and they did not do that on time and make a blame to BSNL/MTNL’s 3G services.
Kevin March 19, 2009 at 11:04 am
Bsnl and Blackberry will they go hand in hand when 3G was launched by BSNL it was only given for private use and when the commercial launch was done after 1 or 2 month DOT wantend BSNL to stop 3G service due to security reasons guys do you remember few months back there was some Conterversey going on between RIM (blackberry) and the government on India regarding some security issue and still its not solved and now BSNL want to launch blackberry who knows after the launch when a new governmnet comes into power imagine if they block off 3G and blackberry services anything can happen this is INDIA
Sanjay Bafna March 19, 2009 at 2:46 pm
@Kevin, The security concerns over the BlackBerry was already resolve after a high leval meeting between Communications Minister A. Raja and Canadian Minister of Industry Tony Clement, in February-09.
On 3G services,MTNL and BSNL already said that “It is possible to monitor 3G services …3G has not been put on hold”.