Comments on: Why RIM Should Cut Its Losses in the United Arab Emirates Market

By: dngcal

dngcal — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:03:00 +0000

Creating proxy servers cost very little. A SIP proxy server with 3G apps. to manager 100,000 users can cost as low as 200,000$. Message storage is very cheap too. The problem is creating some infrastructure in each country but truly these costs are comparatively low. The issue is numbers and few telecom operations want markets less than 1 million. It would make far more sense if RIM simply franchised or farmed-out their services to smaller operators within the certain countries.

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By: Robert Clary

Robert Clary — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:31:16 +0000

A naive, uninformed and pointless article.

By: Omarfk

Omarfk — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:51:50 +0000

Fully Agree.

I cant believe how naive people can be. People. Think about it. Do you think BB would exist without CIA/NSA/MI6/Mossad having access to the BB network whenever they want?

It is just that the UAE want what other western intellgince agencies already have. They just did not do a PR job in asking for it.

By: Sugoi6

Sugoi6 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:36:33 +0000

What are you talking about? Get informed before writing the article. I live in the UAE, UAE asked RIM to have a proxy in the UAE that is run by RIM to speed up the process if they need to tap on someone. They didn't ask for decryption keys. The reason, last year there was an assasination in a hotel in Dubai by Israeli spy that were using blackberrys. They asked RIM for the transcript which RIM obliged and sent them but it took one whole month.

At the same time, US and UK and France have complete access to blackberrys. And there is two proxy servers for RIM, one in China and the other in India. China was going to ban RIM, until RIM backed out and built a server there. At the same time in 2008 in India, there was a terrorist in India involving blowing up hotels. The terrorists used Blackberrys which the government couldnt track. After the incident, RIM had to create a server there or they would have been banned.

Please be aware, RIM backed out to China and India, the reason is ofcourse market share and a huge population.

PS UAE have 500,000 blackberry subscribers. latest update is Saudi Arabia just stopped BBM and very closely will also ban rim (700,000 subscribers). And today it was announced Kuwait is also following the UAE.