With BlackBerry smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) continuing to wriggle out of providing real time information to Indian security agencies, the government has finally decided to boot the smartphone handset maker out of the country.

As the 31 August deadline looms for the Canadian company to set systems in place to enable security agencies to intercept and monitor BlackBerry's messenger and enterprise services, RIM is stretching the patience of the Indian security establishments by coming up with dead-end solutions.

Earlier RIM had offered to provide certain information of the message sent through Blackberry such as the IP address of BlackBerry enterprise server and PIN and International Mobile Equipment Identity number (IEMI) of the BlackBerry handset, which was rejected by India.

Last week it offered limited access to BlackBerry messenger service by 1 September and full access by end November, and said that it wanted to conduct negotiations regarding its enterprise services or corporate email.

RIM's solution is to initially provide information manually and later through a non-human interface using the cloud computing environment. This solution would be require India to provide details of the mobile numbers to RIM, which would then make the information available, with the entire process requiring over a week.

India has made it clear to RIM that its security agencies need real time information, not deferred one.

Fed up with its delaying tactics, India is now demanding that RIM put a proxy server in the country or shut down its messenger and enterprise services from 31 August.

Yesterday news agency PTI reported, quoting a telecom official, ''We do not care if the solution is to set up a server or tweak the programme... . There is a rule for networks to enable interception and we would like them to implement this rule. If they cannot, they will have to switch off.''

A crucial meeting will be held next week with RIM and Indian regulators that will be chaired by home secretary G K Pillai to review the progress of the last 10 days discussions withhe government likely to tell the Ontario-based RIM to either open up or shut shop.

According to RIM, BlackBerry security is based on a system that allows customers to create their own key and the company neither has a master key nor any "back door" to enable RIM or any third party to gain access to crucial corporate data. It says BlackBerry's security architecture is designed in such a way that not even RIM or any third party can read encrypted information under any circumstances.

The company said that it has not provided anything unique to the government of any country and cannot accommodate any request for a copy of a customer's encryption key, despite the government of UAE and India having proof that RIM has quietly compromised with certain countries like the US, China, Russia and a some European nations.

Although many western countries had raised security concerns on BlackBerry services, RIM has refused to disclose details of the outcome of talks it has had with regulators in more than 175 countries where it operates, but the secretive Ontario-based company keeps on saying that its security features are ''widely accepted by customers and governments.''

RIM should read comments put on newspaper websites by BlackBerry users in India, who have praised the Indian government's stand on security, despite users standing to lose some of the secure features of the smartphone, said a commentator.