BlackBerry in International Markets: Balancing Business Interests and Host Nations' Security Concerns
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTR391
Case Length : 14 Pages
Period : 2007-2010
Pub Date : 2011
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Research In Motion
Industry : Consumer Electronics, Smartphones
Countries : Global, India, Asia, Middle East
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"Terrorists and criminals have 'thousands of ways' to hide their communications... Eventually we'll get to a point to ban computers... There's always a discussion about things that develop technologically. But we have to live with it"1
- Sheik Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Bahrain.'s foreign minister, on BalckBerry Controversy, in 2010
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Research In Motion (RIM), a Canadian company, was the maker of the BlackBerry smatphone1. Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of RIM, launched the first BlackBerry smartphone in 2002. Initially Blackberries were sold to business entities and government agencies in UK, US and Canada, but later in 2005 as the smartphone market took off all over the world, RIM decided to expand its overseas business. At that time RIM had no clue that its biggest selling point
- strong encryption built into the design of the BlackBerry system that guaranteed customers privacy- would turn out be a major hurdle in its overseas expansion spree, especially in Asia and the Middle East. In 2010, Government of UAE imposed a ban on BlackBerry
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and created a furor in countries like India, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia among others.
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