DoT bans Nokia's pushmail

Banning Nokia's pushmail, the department of Telecom (DoT) has asked telecom service providers to bar company's proposed -- pushmail or powermail -- service till it put in place a legal monitoring system.

Messaging services from Nokia involve push email for companies and consumers and enables mobile users with compatible Nokia cellphones to manage multiple email accounts from widely used email services like Yahoo!, Gmail, Rediff to Sify.

The telecommunications ministry has off late come down heavily on such services provided by handset manufacturers. Blackberry has also been targeted before, over the questionable enterprise mail services provided by it. Nokia seemed to have booked its place next.