BlackBerry is facing sanctions in Indonesia - arguably one of its most important markets - after a string of recent outages.
The smartphone maker was yesterday hit with a service disruption in the nation affecting web browsing, Messenger and social networking capabilities.
In an interview withBloomberg, a spokesperson for Indonesia's ICT Ministry said that this was the fourth outage for BlackBerry since April 2012, and the ministry is preparing sanctions.
The spokesperson added that the ministry does not want to be seen as allowing the disruptions to keep happening. He did not specify what form the sanctions will take.
BlackBerry has an estimated 6.3 million subscribers in Indonesia, giving it a local smartphone market share of around 42%.
This makes Indonesia the vendor's biggest Asian market. But its share has come under pressure from rivals including Samsung.
BlackBerry has had a storied relationship with the Indonesian state. In 2009, the vendor set up a local service center in the market to stave off a threatened import ban. In 2011, the company agreed to develop a solution for filtering pornography, in response to another threatened ban.