UAE Has Beef with BlackBerry, Will Suspend Service
UAE Has Beef with BlackBerry, Will Suspend Service
Posted 08/02/2010 at 7:05am
| by Paul Lilly
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Things aren't so well between RIM and the United Arab Emirates, with the latter announcing plans to suspend some BlackBerry services starting October 11.
"BlackBerry data is immediately exported offshore, where it is managed by a foreign, commercial organization," the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the UAE said in a statement that was published on its website. "BlackBerry data services are currently the only data services operating in the U.A.E. where this is the case."
The U.A.E.'s beef stems from "certain BlackBerry services allowing users to act with any legal accountability, causing judicial, social, and national security concerns." BlackBerry services providing email, Web browsing, instant messaging, and social networking are to be suspended from October 11 until an acceptable solution "can be developed and applied," the U.A.E. said. In the meantime, customers will still be able to use their BlackBerry for voice, SMS, MMS, and other applications.
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zodi
August 02, 2010 at 8:41pm
Someone finally realized the government department for watching blackberry conversations and data really sat there browsing the internet and gaming.
20 people unemployed now...sad sad sad.
Cache
August 02, 2010 at 11:56am
They are just upset that people can take pictures of an uncovered woman's head, mail them around, and no one is able to stop a random man from being devasated to the point of commiting adultary and having the woman stoned to death. They can cite whatever reason they want, but the root scare is that the religious establishment cannot enforce Islamic social codes in a medium that nobody ever thought of before. You'd seriously think that some prophet of god (not just Islamic, but any religious deity) would have had the foresight to see where this might have been a problem 'someday'. But no.
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