Even if successful, it will only catch terrorists that don't read the news. The rest will migrate to Skype/PTT/Burners for voice and PGP/TOR for data. Remember when newspapers started reporting on intercepted sat phone calls between al Qaeda leadership- they stopped using them.
With terrorists then shunning non-secure communications (like Blackberry), then the only remaining national interest would be corporate espionage (not saying this is exclusive to India or the UAE, I'm guessing the US does far more than any other country, with China close behind).
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