india was a very lucrative market for RIM and on september 1,2010,Informa telecom&media forcasted that blackberry sales in india would be more than 600,000 by end of 2010 and that india smartphone market would have reached approximately 12 million by then a figure expected to reach 40 million by the end of 2015.RIM faced with saturated markets in North America and the UK,had no option but to give into the Indian Government demands as "India is an absolute gold mine