Indian authorities meet ahead of BlackBerry service suspension

The Associated Press (AP) reports that Indian authorities are scheduled to meet this evening to decide whether to ban some BlackBerry services in India, one day ahead of a government-imposed deadline for the device’s maker Research In Motion (RIM) to give security agencies access to encrypted data.

Home Secretary G.K. Pillai is set to meet officials from the Department of Telecommunications, the Intelligence Bureau and the National Technical Research Organisation to discuss BlackBerry security issues, AP reports.

RIM has shown few signs of capitulating to New Delhi’s demands for real time access to encrypted corporate e-mail, which the Canadian company maintains is technically impossible for it to provide.

There are estimated to be around one million BlackBerry users in India.