Blackberry Says It Can't Help India on Monitoring

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion reiterated that it can't give Indian security agencies access to its corporate smartphone email service.

While talks will continue, the issue casts uncertainty over the popular service in the world's fastest-growing telecom market. The Indian government fears the heavy encryption on BlackBerry smartphones makes them easy for terrorists to use undetected. The government has been holding talks with the company to find ways of monitoring RIM's corporate email services. It hasn't, however, set a target date for resolving the matter. RIM has argued that what the Indian government wants is physically impossible for it to accomplish. A company official reiterated that there is no technology available that will allow monitoring of the email service, because it's controlled by the servers at the companies that use the service.