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UAE and Saudi Arabia to ban Blackberry messaging

Sunday, August 1, 2010 around 1 pm mountain time

The United Arab Emirates is to block sending emails, accessing the internet, and delivering instant messages to other Blackberry handsets.

Saudi Arabia is to prevent the use of the Blackberry to Blackberry instant messaging service.

Both nations are unhappy that they are unable to monitor such communications via the handsets.

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at 1 pm and is filed under gov, news.

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