According to a brief statement from BlackBerry’s Chief Operating Officer Marty Beard, both the Pakistani government and the nation’s Telecommunication Authority has accepted that BlackBerry will not grant access to its BES servers, which would open customer data up to government spying.
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State-run Pakistan Telecommunication Authority had in July demanded that the company give access to its BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES), which encrypts data such as emails and instant messages.
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As the government has rescinded its shutdown order, the company will remain in the Pakistan market.
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The company had been considering its options ahead of a December 30 deadline.
Pakistan’s government previously demanded “unfettered” access to BlackBerry’s Enterprise Severs.
We reported earlier that BlackBerry Limited will stop operating in Pakistan over the country’s demands to get backdoor access to all BSES servers.
The good news is BlackBerry fans in Pakistan will be able to continue to use the company’s services and smartphones after today.
Exiting Pakistan would’ve put BlackBerry in a hard position as it tries to recover a share of the worldwide market.
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BlackBerry is rolling out its latest Priv smartphone across the world. In 2010, several countries including India and Saudi Arabia threatened to ban BlackBerry over its refusal to hand over correspondence between its customers. The company has based its business model on pledges of enhanced security and privacy for its clients through specialized software and hardware ever since its debut. “That is a compromise we are not willing to make”, Beard said earlier this year. The company said that it would provide access only to its users’ metadata such as phone location and call date, if authorities had a court order.
