A day after the government set an August 31 deadline for service providers to ensure that BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES) and the BlackBerry Messenger Services (BMS) are made accessible to law enforcement agencies, Research in Motion, makers of BlackBerry smartphones, on Friday assured the government that they would come up with necessary “technical solutions” shortly.

“They said that they are working on some technical solutions. Once they get back to us with their proposals, our technical people will evaluate the solutions and see whether they are workable or not,” sources in the government said. RIM, the sources said, has not sought more time from the government.

Earlier in the day, RIM Vice-President Robert E Crowe met Union Home Secretary G K Pillai in North Block. Emerging from the 30-minute meeting, Crowe declined to divulge details. “I am optimistic” was all he said.