BlackBerry agrees to address India's concerns: MHA

The government today said the makers of BlackBerry, Research in Motion (RIM), had given an assurance on addressing its security concerns and hoped that the Canadian service provider and security agencies would be on the “same page”.

“BlackBerry has assured the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that the issue of monitoring will be sorted out soon. I am sure we will soon be on the same page and our concerns will be addressed,” Special Security (Internal), Utthan Kumar Bansal told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.

The government has already warned the popular smartphone company that it will have to close down operations in the country if it did not allow it to monitor emails and SMSes to address security concerns. This would, in turn, spell trouble for over a million BlackBerry users in India.The government has said RIM will have to address its security-related issues by allowing monitoring facility in India.