Hasta La Gadget!

In late August, BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion offered a deal to increase government access to its users’ handsets, in attempt to appease the government of India. The country forced a deadline on the phone maker–the latest in series of countries to issue an ultimatum to the, including Saudia Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

It seems, however, that RIM’s proposal won’t be enough to win the favor of the Indian government. According to internal memos issued late last month, the compromise issued by the company isn’t offering the government the sort of unfettered access it desires.

A senior official at the company’s Department of Technology confirmed the government’s frustration with India’s Financial Times, “RIM maintains that it does not have the keys that can be offered to security agencies for converting secure corporate e-mail into readable format.”

An October 31st deadline is in place for a solution, after which the Indian government while the company to shut off services for the more than one million users in that country.