Tuesday, December 23. 2008

Update: Activists Protest Kashmir Mapping by Storming Nokia Showroom, Burning Phones

Update 12/23/08: Nokia apologized in an e-mail statement for the error and noted that its data was sourced to NAVTEQ (which it owns). NAVTEQ has the full approval of the State of India to distribute the data.

The full statement:

'Nokia India, deeply regrets an inadvertent error in depicting certain international boundaries in an older version of its maps. This was as a result of a technical error that occurred in merging various map data layers. The error has been identified and corrected earlier this year. Nokia urges all its consumers to upgrade to Maps 2.0 and access the latest version of India maps. Consumers can also update the Maps application and the maps on their device by either accessing the maps website http://maps.nokia.com or Nokia map Loader or visiting a Nokia Care Center.'

- Economic Times

--- original post 12/22/08-----

Activists from the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (the youth wing of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party) entered a Nokia showroom yesterday in central Jabalpur city in Madhya Pradesh state and snatched mobile phones and burnt them.

Kashmir is now jointly administered by India, Pakistan and the People's Republic of China and its mapping as part of Pakistan provoked the action.

- Reuters (includes video)

Also: Cellular News, Economic Times