Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has given a one month extension to Blackberry for further discussion on how it will allow Pakistani government access to its communication services — exactly like its doing in other countries — to stay and continue operating in Pakistan.
Blackberry, that yesterday announced its exit from Pakistan for too much pressure from Pakistani government for backdoor access, has happily agreed and has delayed its exit.
The company, that was scheduled to be be shut down in Pakistan on November 30th, 2015 for not complying with government demands, had instead said that it was exiting from Pakistan because it could not give backdoor access to its BES network.
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After the extension from Pakistani government, Blackberry said on its website:
Government of Pakistan has notified BlackBerry that it has extended its shutdown order from November 30 to December 30.
BlackBerry will delay its exit from the Pakistan market until then.
PTA is apparently trying to save Blackberry’s less than 5,000 customers by extending the shut-down orders and asking Blackberry again for the access that it conveniently offers to various other countries.
Blackberry will now discuss these matters with PTA during next thirty days to see if they can reach a workable arrangement.
PTA said that it can allow Blackberry to operate in Pakistan if sufficient access to its communication is granted to Pakistani law enforcement agencies.
Blackberry’s BES services will now continue to work till December 30th, 2015 as normal, however, any future operations will depend on how Blackberry will respond to Pakistan’s demands during next thirty days.
What if there are 5000 users? You should appreciate theit existence .. that is the reason companies are not interested in Pakistan.You make their lives miserable.
Its all about business my friend, what if you lose 50 rs daily from your pocket. One day, you will think the reason to secure. In a business perspective, its matters allot, and btw, BB have loyal customers. It is enough to see when customers think that a simple Q 10 is much better then Iphone..
When the same was asked by UAE, Saudia and India BB didn’t leave, why now?
UAE has more users than Pak’s “less than 5000 users”
Please BB Do not leave Pakistan and Please For God sake, PTA Dont allow BB to leave Pakistan. What have we (Customers) done to you (PTA)
Theek kaha ap ny
I like
What will we do when BB will actually b close down operations globally? That day is not far. BB is in big financial crises
You’re hell bent on saying that Blackberry conveniently offers access to other countries but not to Pakistan, but if you’ve read Blackberry’s communique you should know that Blackberry refused to offer the Pakistani state “unfettered access” to Blackberry’s servers. The overwhelming possibility is that Blackberry offered the exact same arrangement that it has with other countries to Pakistan, but the Pakistani state rejected it and asked for full backdoor access. That is a fascist, nihilistic demand. The Pakistani state has been known to use deep access spyware such as Finfisher to spy on its citizens. So if I were you, I’d give the benefit of doubt to Blackberry and view the Pakistani state’s Nazi-esque demands with deep suspicion.
The same full back door access that has been given to the Indian government
Please share source of this information.
Here we go!
>Reached a deal with the company. (and I mean “real source”; not an excerpt from a blog lol)
And from what I can find on the agreement with the Indian government, access to encrypted BES services was not given. Blackberry announced to leave Pakistan because the authorities demanded backdoor access to the said services.
If you can find something more concrete please enlightnen me.
These agreements are classified and you can only verify them from leaked sources not official channels..
Then give me a link to the leaked source.
Another http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/11/blackberry-india
This is not the first time a government has asked BlackBerry for access to its servers for “lawful interception.” India too had made a similar demand for real-time access to traffic going through BlackBerry’s enterprise and consumer servers. The government had made it mandatory for BlackBerry to set up its servers within the country.
After several rounds of negotiations, BlackBerry set up servers in India and reportedly provided the Indian government the ability to track in real-time certain consumer services such as emails and email attachments as well as whether messages sent over BlackBerry Messenger were delivered and read.
Extract from http://mashable.com/2015/11/30/blackberry-pakistan-exit/#.Y9GaDy2wiqN
http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/10/india-government-blackberry/
Something from the past
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/11/blackberry-india
PTA beating a dead horse … typical jackass behaviour
This is bad and all but the reason BB is citing for leaving Pakistan is that Govt was asking for access to the encrypted BES service ( which wasn’t given to India).