Nokia’s Pushmail Service has been banned in India and can only start its service further unless the company agrees to resolve security concerns and place a legal monitoring system.
This ban comes at a time when Blackberry services are under the government’s scanner due to the security related issue for not providing a solution to intercept its Enterprise mail services.
TOI reports nearly 50 per cent of Nokia’s E Series business phones sold in the country get activated for e-mails.These developments came at a time when the home ministry has asked the telecom and IT departments to overhaul existing legal frameworks to broaden the meaning of telecom/internet services.
At present Nokia’s pushmail service supports major email service providers like Hotmail Yahoo and Gmail and various other leading email service providers.
TOI also reports IT ministry have been asked by the home ministry to make necessary changes in Indian Telegraph Act of 1885, the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2007.
Once the changes comes into place it will be necessary for all telecom service providers to have the systems in place to deliver authorised intercepts based on telephone numbers, device identity, email IDs, IP addresses or keywords to the national security agencies on real-time basis.
Anunay May 24, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Now I know why I am not able to activate the service for the last few days.
Shamly April 28, 2011 at 6:46 pm
My Gmail is working fine on my Nokia E series phone..is it already de-activated?
rajiev April 16, 2011 at 7:31 pm
sar value , really ceck it
Anandh April 16, 2011 at 6:39 am
Now only INDIAN govt wakes up after several terror attacks. Ok dot when ban for mobiles with high sar value will come?
PD April 15, 2011 at 9:29 pm
@Abhijit
Thanks
@rajiev
Thanks, it ended in a surprise, no ‘guptgu’ !
PD April 15, 2011 at 9:25 pm
@MaNoJ
@Abadan Mohapatra
Thanks, all of you. In fact normally, Vishu, falls on April 14 every year, however, for a change it is today.
I feel happy that that we are integrated nationally and in TT too and keep afloat in the mainstream of culture and traditions. Really overwhelmed…
Abadan Mohapatra April 15, 2011 at 6:34 pm
And Happy belated Odia New Year to all TT Readers/commentators. Yesterday it was.
MaNoJ April 15, 2011 at 4:12 pm
ohh sorry..
btw.. wish you and all TT reader a very happy Malyalam new year..
rajiev April 15, 2011 at 3:53 pm
yeh guptgu hai!
Abhijit April 15, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Today is Vishu a New year of Malayalis..
@MaNoJ
Happy Vishu,
Let this year be filled with the things that are truly good.
@PD
PD April 15, 2011 at 3:35 pm
@MaNoJ
Today is Malayalam New Year Day (popularly known as Vishu – Please see the FLASHING MESSAGE BELOW THE ‘Home’ of the main frame of TT…!
“Wish Every Malayali a Very Happy Vishu & Shubho Noboborsho Happy Bengali New Year”
MaNoJ April 15, 2011 at 3:07 pm
for what?
PD April 15, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Tarun & TT
Thank you for the wishes and same to you all.
Kanaga Deepan N April 15, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Same for me TOO…
Ganesh Srinivasan April 15, 2011 at 12:19 pm
This obviously is the result of tangle with BlackBerry who lost out a lot when Nokia launched the service – free service compared to paid service by BlackBerry
I use Nokia Messaging on my Nokia E63 phone and I had used BlackBerry earlier
But I am not sure if Nokia messages are encrypted like BlackBerry – may be some tech person can write on that
MaNoJ April 15, 2011 at 11:16 am
Where were DOT and other telecom agencies when Nokia started the pushmail services.
Why they wake-up too late, when many people are using nokia pushmail service for business use.
nihar April 15, 2011 at 10:46 am
this news is not correct, email service on nokia is working fine, as off now..
rajiev April 15, 2011 at 8:02 am
blackcherry, what about it service
kanna April 15, 2011 at 7:17 am
U amend rules only for ur sake?
Kumar April 15, 2011 at 12:04 am
BAN DOT
Raghu April 14, 2011 at 11:38 pm
@Prithvi
yes agree with you BSNL does not follow 1909 service properly at all. when i send msg it says” wait for registration number and it never comes” and the unwanted messages keep coming i do not know why.
sharma April 14, 2011 at 11:30 pm
i think you had your school education in erode.@Manikandan K
Santu Sovan Mandal April 14, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Well said….wtf is DOT doing??
Prithvi April 14, 2011 at 11:11 pm
TRAI should ban unsolicited sms senders/callers. They can’t even implement the 1909 service properly. What hypocrites !!
Manikandan K April 14, 2011 at 9:22 pm
fm mrng i was struggling with this issue…well thx tarun ji for d update…
Dip April 14, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Dear DOT, u better ban the whole telecom service due to security concerns