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CellTrust Corporation is one of leading companies in mobile secure messaging and secure applications for mobile phones. The company recently responded to the recent announcement by the Indian government that it plans to create guidelines and regulations for using proxy SIM cards for secure communication in the country.

The response was made before President Obama during his visit to India to discuss the economic partnership between India and the United States.

In a press release, Sean Moshir, CEO and Chairman of CellTrust (News - Alert), said, "In tough economic times like we are currently facing in the United States, we believe that certain actions, such as the ones by the government of India, could potentially be considered unfair practice against certain U.S. companies. While we applaud the government of India for recognizing the need for secure SMS, we believe that the resulting technology may end up infringing on the patent CellTrust has filed in India regarding Secure SMS and also could potentially violate the practices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property system. We hope that the U.S. and other countries can come together to find ways to protect jobs, while growing businesses, and adhering to international intellectual property principles."

CellTrust is the currently largest provider of Secure SMS in the world and has many government organizations as customers, including the U.S. government. While the U.S. government protects its citizens, their properties and interests, Moshir believes it should also protect their intellectual property so that jobs that need to stay in the U.S. would stay here.

The Indian government according to ZDnet is developing guidelines to issue encrypted SIM cards with digital signatures unique to an individual or company, for email and SMS communication. However, CellTrust has already filed patent 744/DELNP/2010 with the Indian Patent Office for secure SMS technology using client software on the handset for encryption.

Moshir led several industry changing technology initiatives before founding CellTrust in 2006. He is credited with founding the now global multi-million dollar security patch vulnerability management and remediation space when he started PatchLink (News - Alert).