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Saudi BlackBerry Ban to Affect Messenger Only

05 Aug, 2010, 10:50 am IST | by Reuters | Smartphones

Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma, Verdana, Arial, 'trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px">A ban on BlackBerry in Saudi Arabia will affect only its BlackBerry Messenger text messaging service but an August 6 deadline for its enforcement is final, a spokesman for the telecommunications regulator told Reuters on Wednesday. "(The ban) is only for the Messenger. Negotiations are still going, the deadline is final," said Sultan al-Malik from the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC).

 

CITC said on Tuesday it had informed the kingdom's three mobile operators of a ban on a BlackBerry service, without specifying which one.

Tags: Blackberry , Research in Motion , Saudi Arabia , ban

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