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i would tend to disagree on the following points: 1. RIM / BB has NOT tried to 'bend anything with money power' and its wrong to imply otherwise [they have not had any more cases against them related to bribery / corruption than the Tatas which is a high enough standard for our country] 2. I've never been employed in any capacity by RIM or its subsidiaries - I'm just pointing out disinformation which tends to hog most of the attention 3. Secure encryption implies not having ANY form of backdoor access with another key else its easily subject to manupilation 4. Anyone insisting on any 'key' in BB's possession does not understand how public key encryption works since the only keys are in the possession of the users and not RIM 5. 'lives of Indians is as precious as life of Americans, Europeans, Chinese and Israelis' is true but irrelevant and hence a strawman since no one has claimed to the contrary 6. to date security agencies have not been able to provide ONE example of a terrorist escaping justice due to BB usage ALONE if they escape its due to the loopholes in the current system / infrastructure / response time etc. If they are convicted, its due to other primary evidence - no terrorist has yet been convicted SOLELY on the basis ot BB interceptions / msgs 7. its easy for the govt to demand 'real time interception' but this facility has not been provided ANYWHERE else in the world [not due to privacy reasons but technical constraints] 8. it shows an utter abdication of responsibility by security agencies purely on presumptive grounds of what MAY happen in the future as opposed to fixing the hundreds of internal problems that prevent them from doing their jobs more effectively TODAY including but not limited to: - budgets, manpower, resources - coordination / info sharing among relevant branches of govt [which even the US is still struggling with today] - leakages of sensitive data - preservation of evidence to prevent contamination - securing our borders - actively pursuing each lead to track down terror cells - basic anti-terror tactics development that is followed abroad - and dozens more that we as laypeople know nothing about but the people working at the agencies face daily here's my analogy: our country is like the titanic slowly sinking in a sea of terrorism while security agencies are busy re-arranging the deck chairs [i.e., BB / RIM] and focusing on minor faults instead of the bigger issues that urgently need to be addressed like life boats and flotation devices

A raja has been arrested finally. its all over the net...

Though this is just 10 days data but for all the earlier noice about 50% CDMA users will be porting out... RCDMA and TATA both have lost less Gross Customers compared to supposed to be the Best Networks, Vodafone and Airtel Gross Port Outs Vodafone-44,041 Airtel-60,970 R-CDMA-23,264 TATA-CDMA-26,251 And as far as huge numbers porting in to Vodafone & Airtel, they may be All Prepaid, Low ARPU users wanting to taste the best at lowest cost Personally seen this at Voda Store Here-Nearly 25 people with Port in to Vodafone-All into Prepaid... But People Porting out from Vodafone & Airtel may be high ARPU users tired of their tariffs..So despite net gains..Negative Finacial Impact may be more for them..

BB 9650 is getting officially launched in a day or two for Reliance at a price of 24700/- as per my local dealer.