Research in Motion (RIM) which registered strong growth in shipments despite adversaries in Q2 2010, may face a tougher challenge in Asian market as it faces possible ban in two important emerging markets, Indian and the UAE.

The relevant telecom monitoring agencies of both the countries have set a deadline for RIM to share interception mechanism to trace its BlackBerry Email services particularly for the enterprise segment.

In fact the deadline has been routed through operators who have been to share such mechanism. RIM is in a fix as it says that sharing such mechanism results in compromising on customer privacy as well as the high security mechanisms assured by the services.

Indian operators appear to be unclear about the situation themselves. India’s leading operator issued a statement saying, "We have received a letter from DOT on upgrading our systems for facilitating interception of Blackberry services. Relevant steps are being taken to comply with the instructions."

The Indian agencies have set today as deadline for RIM to follow its instructions or face possible ban. Similarly UAE has set October 11 as the deadline.