BlackBerry Will Continue Operations In Pakistan (fortune.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 2, 2016 @11:42AM from the walk-it-on-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At the end of November, BlackBerry announced it would pull its operations out of Pakistan after the country's government demanded access to BlackBerry's user data. The Pakistan government has now dropped that request, and BlackBerry will continue operating there as a result. In a statement, BlackBerry COO Marty Beard said, "We are grateful to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Pakistani government for accepting BlackBerry's position that we cannot provide the content of our customers' BES traffic, nor will we provide access to our BES servers."

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Re:Interesting by Dahamma · 2016-01-02 12:13 · Score: 4, Informative

Very old article, not even true, and refuted by Blackberry.
http://in.reuters.com/article/...
"RIM is providing an appropriate lawful access solution that enables India's telecom operators to be legally compliant with respect to their BlackBerry consumer traffic, to the same degree as other smartphone providers in India, but this does not extend to secure BlackBerry enterprise communications"