The same old story was repeated on Monday. The government gave Research In Motion (RIM), the company that owns BlackBerry, a 60-day reprieve to give a solution to the security agencies to give access to the government to intercept its Enterprise emails.

Interestingly, RIM has said that it does not have any solution to offer to the government. However, it has offered some solution to the government.

The security agencies will test over the next 60 days. At the same time, the telecom department, or DoT, has been asked to study the feasibility of providing such services only through a server located in India.

These decisions were taken at a meeting chaired by Union home secretary GK Pillai and attended by technical intelligence experts here on Monday. The meet was called to take a final decision on BlackBerry services, a day before an August 31 deadline the government had slapped on RIM to give security agencies access to its secure data.

The government has also decided to also take other service providers such as Google, Skype, MSN Hotmail or VPN — to task for inadequate access to data traffic routed through India.

An official said notices would be issued from Tuesday to all those whose services cannot be monitored by the Indian security agencies, and they would be asked to set up servers here to enable lawful interception.

The feasibility of all solutions offered by RIM, including setting up virtual servers and opening access in different ways, will be tested over the next 60 days by technical experts of the Intelligence Bureau and the National Technical Research Organisation. Technical discussions between RIM and security agencies are scheduled to continue on Tuesday and may well extend over the next two months.

In a related development, following the Intelligence Bureau’s move to ask DoT to stop Nokia’s popular messaging services in India until they can be monitored, handset maker Nokia, which offers push-mail services on Monday said it would set up a server in India by November to help the government monitor this facility.

“Currently, the Nokia Messaging Service is in beta format. We have been working towards installing the requisite infrastructure in the country and will set up servers for our push email service by November 2010,” Nokia India managing director D Shivakumar said.