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Indonesian Government Preparing Sanctions Against BlackBerry

Again, BlackBerry had an outage on Sunday. it left Indonesians without access to some messaging services, and now the Indonesian government is preparing sanctions against BlackBerry. True enough, this is not the first time it has happened but it seems like this issue has occurred quite an unprecedented amount of times recently.

The sanctions are still pending, depending on BlackBerry’s report into the disruption. The Indonesian government will also consult the nation’s telecommunication regulatory board to look into whether the incident has violated any local laws, according to a spokesman for the Communication and Information Technology Ministry. It’s the fourth outage for BlackBerry since April 2012.

“We don’t want to be seen as allowing this to keep happening again,” Gatot Dewa Broto, a spokesman for the Communication and Information Technology Ministry said. “We are preparing sanctions,” he said, declining to elaborate what these may be.

Sunday’s outage, which predominantly affected BlackBerry Messenger, may really start to hinder the company’s efforts to sustain its market share in the world’s fourth-most populous nation. BlackBerry has about 6.3 million subscribers in Indonesia, up from 6 million in 2012 and 5 million in 2011.

Still, BlackBerry probably won’t reach the ministry’s forecast of 7 million subscribers this year amid tighter competition from Google Inc.’s Android-powered smartphones (afterall, there’s still Whatsapp, LINE, Google Hangouts).

The service interruption primarily affected Web browsing, social networking and BlackBerry Messenger, Matt Stewart, a spokesman for BlackBerry said.

Via BloomBerg News

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