Comment by lucaspiller
11 years ago
You are lucky to not have had to deal with corporate beuracracy - these things take time :-) At work I'm integrating an API for a mobile operator, it's apparently working and ready to be used however I've been waiting a couple of months to get all the documentation and everything setup.
Even once they have the CA it needs to be added to browsers which will take time. Taking into account release cycles of embedded devices (read phones where the manufacturer hasn't released an update), summer 2015 seems rather optimistic.
The CA will be cross-signed, so it does not need to be added to browsers right away in order to be accepted. It will be treated as an intermediate cert, not a root cert, by all mainstream browsers at the outset.
But there is a lot of paperwork to be done, and a lot of engineering to be done, and a lot of things to buy and people to hire, in order to get a CA operating.