Govt plans special mobile phones for armed forces

Data should reside in servers in India so that govt & law enforcement agencies have control over it

The government is contemplating giving armed personnel special mobile phones, which are likely to be designed by an Indian company.

The idea is to keep data and communication devices used by the defence forces secure. The plan was in the preliminary stages and the government would deliberate on it further after internal discussions and talks with other stakeholders, including manufacturers, said officials. The specifications for the mobile phone will also be discussed later.

“The Minister of Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, had discussed about the possibility of making a mobile phone designed exclusively for the armed forces with all security features,”