Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has announced the launch of BlackBerry services by next month. BSNL Director (Finance) S D Saxena, speaking on the sidelines of a CII conference said, "We are well on track to launch our BlackBerry services by next month."

Blackberry services were introduced in India in October 2004. However, it came under the government's scanner last year when security agencies could not access the data stored in the Blackberry network. India has earlier asked Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of Blackberry, to route all its calls and e-mails through servers based in India to allow security agencies to read them as it fears its usage by the terrorist outfits.

Up till now, five mobile service providers ~ Airtel, Vodafone, BPL, Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices ~ are offering BlackBerry services in India.