Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates to ban BlackBerry features
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Two Mideast countries plan to block key features of Research In Motion's BlackBerry, citing national security concerns.
Regulators in the United Arab Emirates announced plans on Sunday to block e-mail, instant messaging, and Web browsing on the devices beginning October 11 in a dispute over how they store and transmit data. Meanwhile, neighboring Saudi Arabia has directed two mobile operators in that country to disable the BlackBerry's instant message function, according to a Reuters report.
The UAE's decision was the result of "failure of ongoing attempts, dating back to 2007, to bring BlackBerry services in the UAE in line with UAE telecommunications regulations," the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said in a statement Sunday. Some BlackBerry services "operate beyond the enforcement" of current telecommunications regulations in the country, the government said.
For more on this story, read Two Mideast countries to ban BlackBerry functions on CNET News.
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They should'nt be allowed to have any technology what so ever.
Repressive dark ages morons should not be allowed to have anything past wet string and tin cans.
Reality Bites2nd Aug 2010 -
RE: Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates to ban BlackBerry features
The fact that datas are processed on RIM servers in the north American continent has also deterred some European businesses to use BB for their own business.
atari_z3rd Aug 2010
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