Leading mobile manufacturer, Nokia Inc. may introduce its push email service, Nokia Messaging, in India by December. Trials for the messaging service are already under way since April and the world's largest mobile phone vendor has been making efforts to get regulatory approval from the Department of Telecommunications.

Nokia is said to have signed a partnership deal with Telecom Italia to roll out the service.

Nokia India Director Marketing, Vineet Taneja said, "We plan to launch the service by the year-end. We are in advance stages of discussion with different operators, whereby consumers will get the service through an operator plan."

Currently, Canada based smartphone maker Research in Motion's (RIM) is an unchallenged player in the push mail service supported by BlackBerry. Nokia's move may create major movement in telecom market circles as the idea to introduce similar service has been considered as a clear challenge to RIM's dominance in the filed.

Nokia will provide push mail service at its more than 20 Nokia smartphones including E Series handsets, 5800 XpressMusic, N97 and N86, running on Symbaib S60 platform. The company is also working to provide email service on the mid-end handsets using the S40 operating system.