Blackberry
PTA, on direction of concerned bodies, has requested from cellular operators to ban Blackberry Enterprises services to its enterprise users. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority mentioned that directions brought up from LEAs and that is upon on security reasons.
To the cellular operators a letter has been sent by the authority, the letter mentions that BES users have to be given 90 days of notification earlier then banning the services completely.
The Directive requested from the mobile companies to make sure that there is no BES connection active following the 30th of November 2015.
The spokesman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority confirmed ust the move and mentioned that just BES is going to be banned whereas BIS services are going to be remained functioning as they are.
Blackberry devices, along with just voice and SMS functions, as well going to be remained working.
Those who do not know, Blackberry services are primarily of below 2 types:
BIS
The BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) provides your BlackBerry access to the Internet. Actually the BIS is like an ISP (most of the time your cellular provider) and each time your BlackBerry receives an email, or accesses a webpage it goes via BIS (your operator) to do so.
BES
BES or BlackBerry Enterprise Server gives your BlackBerry access to a corporate intranet. The intranet is the private, internal, network within a company that is called BES. It’s kind of like a mini-internet that is cut off from the rest of the world.
Lots of intranets let you to be in touch with the Internet also, however with included layers of security.
Difference between BIS and BES:
These two services lets your BlackBerry to receive email, also retrieve webpages and use the 3rd party apps.
Regarding BIS, your network operates the server. In your BIS everything to your blackberry phone is encrypted, however that is regarding the enhancing of the security features.
Regarding the BES, your company operates the server and most of the time has it sitting somewhere within the corporate network. All the aspect of the BES server controls by the IT department, and it is probably sitting in a awesome and secure area within your data center.
