The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has asked the department of telecommunications (DoT) to stop Nokia'''s popular messaging services in India until they can be monitored, according to a report by the Economic Times. 

Earlier, BlackBerry services also came under IB radar as email from one BlackBerry to another can not be monitored. The intelligence agency had earlier questioned security of Gmail and internet telephony firm Skype.

Nokia launched a beta version of the messaging service in April 2009. All leading cellular operators offer the service, which the company's advertisements claim allows consumers to use up to 10 email accounts on the move.

A Nokia India spokesperson told ET that its messaging email service is still in the beta format in India, and that "the requisite infrastructure required by security agencies is being put in place". BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which has a million customers, and Nokia collectively account for nearly all the corporate email consumers on mobile phones in the country.

“We had raised certain concerns/reservations with regard to security issues of monitoring arrangements, which remain unaddressed till date. But open advertisements in the market indicate Nokia is still going ahead with the launch of these services without addressing security concerns,” said IB said in the communiqué.

“We had raised certain concerns/reservations with regard to security issues of monitoring arrangements, which remain unaddressed till date. But open advertisements in the market indicate Nokia is still going ahead with the launch of these services without addressing security concerns,” the IB said in the communiqué.