After facing constant pressure from China and India, Blackberry users in Saudi Arabia will lose access to the RIM services on account of the regulatory authority in Saudi Arabia. The Government in Saudi Arabia has announced that it will not allow Blackberry services to run in the country from coming Friday.

What this essentially means is that RIM is heading towards a situation where it may have to deploy local servers in countries where threat perception is very high. This also make RIM’s position shaky. Compared to earlier times when it was the only smartphone service provider in the world, its position has been already threatened by the competing brands of Apple and Android.

While the consumer has become smart and mobile office benefits are there to be lapped up by professionals, RIM’s lack of co-operation with security agencies of countries will eventually isolate it and allow other players to capture the market.

The root of the issue is that security establishments want to track the contents of the messages and emails that travel on the Blackberry network. RIM has been maintaining that it is not possible since the messages are encrypted and this has made the different Governments ask RIM to share the encryption key. RIM maintains that it is not possible to find the private key used for encryption of the messages travelling on its network.

And this is a point of concern. The security establishments want RIM to come up with a plan to ensure that messages and emails can be read on the RIM network.

As of now, it looks increasingly difficult for Blackberry to comply and unless it works in this direction the news is sure going to make iPhone and the Android smartphones look pretty.