RIM may have recently opened a facility in Bochum, but that apparently wasn’t enough Bavarian love to save it from being canned as the German government’s platform of choice for its high-security needs. Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has been selected to lead up an effort to procure “several thousand” customized handsets with mega-uncrackable encryption, winning the deal over the old BlackBerry standby thanks to concerns that state secrets are being transmitted overseas — to Canada, specifically. Canada has always struck us as a pretty trustworthy bunch of good, hard-workingfolks, but then again, it’s all fun and games until Canadian Motor Works, Canadawagen, Canada-Benz, and Canadorsche all come out of nowhere.
[Thanks, Toby]
Germany ousts BlackBerry for government VIPs originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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