Indian officials have reportedly issued an ultimatum to Research in Motion asking the Canadian company to provide a way for the government to monitor BlackBerry communications if it wants its service to continue in that country.
A report in Friday’s issue of The Economic Times , based in Mumbai, India, quoted unnamed sources at India’s Department of Telecommunication as saying that Internet service providers in the country would be asked to discontinue BlackBerry services unless RIM provided the government with a way to snoop on the communications.
RIM executives and officials at the Canadian High Commission have been informed about India’s stance, the report noted.
The report also said that RIM was informed by Indian officials that the meeting, which took place on Thursday, would be the last one the government entertained unless the Canadian company came up with a way to meet the government’s demands.
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