After U.A.E., Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and India banned Blackberry mobile phones from using email, instant-messaging and web-browsing services, now Turkey is prepared to do the same.
The continuing inspection by the Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority is about to set, according to leading newspapers in Turkey.
As rumoured, the government asked Blackberry for a specifically designed protocol to provide corporate customers with the ability to transmit information wirelessly while also ensuring them with the necessary confidence that no one, including RIM (Research in Motion service), could access their data.
There will be more spesific and secure solutions like moving the servers to Turkey and run them in a high secure specialized protocol. By all means all Turkish Telecommunications Provider’s such as Turkcell, will help the process on this issue.
Two hundred thousand users are at risk
If the negotiations gone too far, Turkey may be 6th country to ban Blackberry services. Blackberry is very popular and there are approximately 200.000 users in Turkey. This may also affect the visitors come to Turkey.
As I mentioned about the global risks of cloud computing in one of my articles, this example can be considered as one of them.
You can read it from here.
Altough Turkish people are familiar with the latest bans such as YouTube.com and many other websites but it will be the first hardware ban related to it’s services.
nice post. thanks.
I live in Turkey and I did not hear or read anything like this. It seems impossible to ban bb on Turkey.