The row is the latest in a long running dispute between Research in Motion (RIM) and international governments.
RIM declined to comment on the deadline.
The central issue is how governments monitor the encrypted traffic from BlackBerry devices.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was the first country to propose a block on the devices, saying they posed a "national security risk" in their ability to send messages and e-mail without the authorities having the ability to monitor the communications.
RIM sends this data to servers in Canada and the encryption used to secure this is virtually uncrackable.
Other countries followed the UAE's lead, including Lebanon, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.India is the latest country to enter the fray, with analysts expecting more to follow suit.
In 2008, the BBC reported that RIM was at loggerheads with the Indian government over demands that it help decrypt suspicious text messages.
RIM's answer then, as now, was that it does not allow any third party - or even the company itself - to read information sent over its network.
In July this year, RIM responded to a report in India's Economic Times that said the firm would allow Indian security authorities to monitor Blackberry services.
The firm said it co-operated with all governments "with a consistent standard and the same degree of respect", but denied it had ever provided anything unique to the government of one country that it had not offered to the governments of all countries.
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