Research In Motion (RIM) has agreed to give access India to secure data of BlackBerry from 1st of September. This led New Delhi to put off the decision on whether to ban the smartphone completely over the concerns of militants using the device or internet to plan attacks. India is also asking RIM, Google and Skype to set up their local servers to monitor their services.

After the Indian Interior Ministry said that the company had offered various ways to allow authorities to watch Blackberry communications, shares of Canadian-based RIM rose. Government will be checking their feasibility for next 60 days. Earlier New Delhi had warned to shut down the services of BlackBerry by Tuesday if RIM was unable to provide the access.

Indian officials are concerned over the security threats from internet-based message service and other services such as Skype and Google. And On Monday RIM provided Indian officials an interim solution which forced India to put off the decision of cutting the services of BlackBerry for now.

“They have given some access, which we will operationalize from September 1,” said the government source, referring to RIM. “They will have to provide full access to all communications that go through India. They will have to set up a server in India,” the source said.


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