Xiaomi couldn't seem to afford losing its Indian market after all the overwhelming success of its flash sales this year.
It was last week when Indian Air Force warned their colleagues and families of the security issues of Xiaomi Redmi 1S as it is reportedly "sending data to remote servers located in China." Furthermore, the Taiwanese government is allegedly investigating on this serious concern and will make a decision in 3 months time whether Xiaomi will continue to sell its products in their country.
A day before its 8th flash sale in India, Xiaomi's Vice President for International Operations announced their plans of putting up a data center in the country by 2015 for local user data storage purposes. In the meantime, the Chinese tech giant made a temporary arrangement by transferring all corresponding data and services of their Indian market users, from Beijing data centers to Amazon AWS data centers in Singapore and USA. According to Barra, the ongoing migration will be completed by the end of October, if not by end of the year.
"We don't have a revolutionary product. Like many other messaging services, we also offer messaging, backup, cloud services to our customers. We also have the highest standards of encryption to ensure that users' data is safe," Barra said. "The migration process, which began earlier this year, will be completed by the end of October and will benefit users in international markets, including our customers in India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan," he added.
The immediate response from Xiaomi hopes to alleviate the concerns and worries of its users in India which can keep them from further buying and using Xiaomi's mobile devices. Xiaomi began tapping the Indian market in July this year by introducing their high-end Mi3 priced at Rs13,999, followed by their mid-range phone Redmi 1S priced at Rs5,999, which became Xiaomi's top-seller device and reportedly sold more than 500,000 units to date in India alone.
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