Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has agreed to provide Indian security agencies partial access to its Messenger service by September 1 and would complete the project by the end of the year, a  Times of India report said.

The move comes after the Indian government threatened to suspend BlackBerry services by August 31 if access to its data is denied.

The Canada-based firm said some more discussions were required for giving access to BlackBerry Entreprise Services (BES), official sources were quoted as saying by the report.

RIM has a subscriber base of nearly one million in India.