A meeting was taken today by the Union Home Secretary Shri G.K.Pillai with representatives of Central Security Agencies and Telecom Department.   The meeting asked the Telecom Department to convey to service providers that two Blackberry services namely, Business Enterprises Services and Messenger Services be made accessible to Law Enforcement Agencies by 31st August, 2010. 

If a technical solution is not provided by 31st August, 2010, the Government will review the position and take steps to block these two services from the network.  The meeting also took note of the fact that the Blackberry services like Voice SMS and BIS have been made available to Law Enforcement Agencies.