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SAUDIS
JOIN UAE IN CURBING
BLACKBERRY SERVICES
Saudi Arabia has ordered its main mobile network operators to block unspecified BlackBerry services starting this Friday. The Communications and Information Technology Com¬mission said the ban would last until Saudi Telecom, Mobily and Zain Saudi Arabia “fulfill the regulatory requirements it has requested”. The CITC said it informed the three operators more than a year ago of the need to ensure that BlackBerry devices used in the kingdom met “regulatory requirements”. The announcement came hours after RIM executives hosted an event in New York to promote the release of the new touch-screen Torch 9800 flagship smartphone, which co-CEO Mike Lazaridis calls one of the most important products in the company’s history.
NO SIGN OF DEAL FOR RIM WITH NEW DELHI
RIM told FT on Tuesday there was no sign of an agreement with the Indian government, which has threatened to ban BlackBerry services. RIM remains firmly against setting up a domestic proxy server in India and opening up its technology to local authorities, which would enable government surveillance. “It’s like asking Coke for their secret formula. It’s not going to happen,” a person close to the company said, adding, “Our business is based on confidentiality. If we give that away, we risk losing many of our corporate customers.” FT writes that India has been in a tussle with RIM since the government claimed that terrorists used BlackBerry-like devices, which prevented the monitoring of content, to aid the gunmen who killed 166 people in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Saudi Arabia has ordered its main mobile network operators to block unspecified BlackBerry services starting this Friday. The Communications and Information Technology Com¬mission said the ban would last until Saudi Telecom, Mobily and Zain Saudi Arabia “fulfill the regulatory requirements it has requested”. The CITC said it informed the three operators more than a year ago of the need to ensure that BlackBerry devices used in the kingdom met “regulatory requirements”. The announcement came hours after RIM executives hosted an event in New York to promote the release of the new touch-screen Torch 9800 flagship smartphone, which co-CEO Mike Lazaridis calls one of the most important products in the company’s history.
NO SIGN OF DEAL FOR RIM WITH NEW DELHI
RIM told FT on Tuesday there was no sign of an agreement with the Indian government, which has threatened to ban BlackBerry services. RIM remains firmly against setting up a domestic proxy server in India and opening up its technology to local authorities, which would enable government surveillance. “It’s like asking Coke for their secret formula. It’s not going to happen,” a person close to the company said, adding, “Our business is based on confidentiality. If we give that away, we risk losing many of our corporate customers.” FT writes that India has been in a tussle with RIM since the government claimed that terrorists used BlackBerry-like devices, which prevented the monitoring of content, to aid the gunmen who killed 166 people in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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