Indian Government Delays BlackBerry Ban To January 31

Research In Motion's security situation, regarding their BlackBerry devices in some particular regions, aren't over yet. Despite coming up with a fix for the United Arab Emirates not too long ago, the Indian government is still not satisfied with what RIM is doing to assuage their security doubts. However, despite previously giving RIM until October 31st to figure everything out, the government has now allowed for an additional 90 days to be tacked onto the deadline, giving RIM until January 31st to give the government something they are satisfied with.

A new report from the Economic Times newspaper, the extended deadline is meant to give Research In Motion enough time to figure out a way to provide India's security forces access to RIM's Enterprise data services. The goal is to give the government appropriate access, and still provide some kind of security assurances to the users of the BlackBerry Enterprise service. RIM has already managed to make some data accessible, including the information found in BlackBerry Messenger, but the company has made it clear that they plan on having real-time access by the beginning of 2011.

There are many levels to the extended situation in India. While the Enterprise data is one facet of the information the Indian government wants to access, they also want to be able to keep track of RIM's encrypted corporate email system, for security purposes. With the 90 day extension, it looks like the Indian government is doing all they can to work with RIM, so it will be interesting to hear what results turn up by the beginning of next year.

[via Economic Times]