Research In Motion (RIM), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, will be meeting with Indian 
official tomorrow over security issues raised by government agencies. India fears that e-mails sent by the BlackBerry can’t be traced or intercepted. This creates security risks for the government. For years, India has been a target for terrorists over issues like the ownership of Kashmir.
Indian Telecoms Minister Andimuthu Raja announced last week that RIM had assured the government that it would come out with a solution within two months. But last Friday, RIM said in a customer update that the company does not have a copy of the customer’s encryption key and would be unable to accommodate the Indian government’s request.
India has 114,000 BlackBerry subscribers. Services are offered by Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar and BPL Mobile.
John,
India has around half a million BB subscribers.
RIM doesn’t share information on its subscription base. But according to an Indian telecommunications minister, as of earliy May of this year, India had around 114,000 BlackBerry subscribers.
“As per the information received from service providers, there are around 114,000 subscribers as on date who are being provided BlackBerry services by various telecom companies,” Jyotiraditya Scindia told the lower house of parliament in a written reply to a question.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=india-said-to-have-114000
http://www.telecomtiger.com/fullstory.aspx?storyid=1835
Maybe 400,000 subscribers have been added since May 6 of this month, but I doubt it.