Indonesia demands local RIM server

Indonesia's telecommunications regulator, Badan Regulasi Telekomunikasi Indonesia (BRTI), has renewed its demand that Research In Motion locate a server in the country to route communications traffic, after the Canadian company reportedly set up similar infrastructure in Singapore, PC World reports.

The BRTI plans to make the setting up of a local server a precondition for RIM to continue to offer its BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) in Indonesia, said BRTI commissioner Heru Sutadi.

“We are disappointed with RIM's decision to build its router in Singapore because so far Indonesia remains its biggest market in the region,” Data Centre Dynamics quotes regulation commission chief Iwan Krisnadi, as saying.

“We need them to place their server here as it would smooth the connection and at the end of the day bring benefits to its Indonesian customers.”

According to Ubergizmo, Indonesia, the largest user of BlackBerry services outside of the US, certainly has the clout to threaten RIM, that the country's telecoms regulatory agency, BTRI, will proceed with shutting down RIM's BlackBerry Messenger and Internet services should the Canadian firm decline to establish BBM servers within the South East Asian country.