BlackBerry India Head Quits - Wall Street Journal

By R. JAI KRISHNA NEW DELHI—Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said Saturday the managing director of its Indian operations, Sunil Dutt, has left the company with immediate effect. Until Mr. Dutt's replacement is named, BlackBerry's Indian operations will be overseen by Rick Costanzo, executive vice president for global sales, the company's spokesman for the India and Greater China region said in a statement. "India is an extremely important market for BlackBerry and our aim is to continue and build on our recent momentum with the launch of BlackBerry 10," the statement added. Mr. Dutt's departure comes at a time when the company's smartphones are seeing higher sales in the world's second-largest market for telecom products and services. Earlier, this week, BlackBerry Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said its new product—the BlackBerry Z10—sold out in India within two days of its launch. BlackBerry has a crucial market in India, where smartphone sales are on the rise as consumers are replacing basic phones with products with Internet browsing and other features According to research firm Canalys, Samsung had a 40% market share of India smartphone sales in the October-December quarter of last year. Sony held 9%, Nokia 7% and LG 6%. BlackBerry and Apple both had a market share of 5%, with the remainder held by smaller brands. The Canadian company also is in the midst of resolving a long-pending demand by the Indian government to get BlackBerry—and other communication companies—to allow the country's security agencies to monitor their user services to guard against terrorism and other crimes. India has demanded that companies offering encrypted communication services allow monitoring by security agencies in order to operate in the country. While the BlackBerry maker has already offered systems to monitor Internet browsing and messenger services used on its smartphones, the company maintains that intercepting corporate emails is impossible as there is no technology available to allow monitoring of the service. India's fear is that terrorists will use services such as those offered by RIM, Skype and Google because they are heavily encrypted and security agencies cannot monitor them. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHSaU3AlutQrGgunJxx0KAb0zc0-g&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323628804578349403516503738.html

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