Blackberry Service In UAE Continues!

Well after two months in LIMBO, UAE finally decided to keep the Blackberry service! Of course, can you imagine suppressing half a million subscribers just for what? Cultural or Safety and Security issues/crap?

This is really plain insane, they just think that they can get away with everything, Suppression is BAD ! Okay, we are just expatriates in this rich oil, (censored) country but we make this country, the UAE, Indians and Pakistanis built majority of the skyscrapers, Filipinos are mostly on Sales or Assistants and helpers and the Europeans and Americans, Locals sit in their high chairs and earn big bucks! Reality bites!

BB service is FUN! And now, its here to stay!

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The United Arab Emirates has called off a ban on Research in Motion’s BlackBerry service that would have left nearly a half-million users without the service just days from now, it announced today.


The U.A.E. is the first of a number of countries to directly resolve its dispute with Research in Motion, as India gave the BlackBerry creator two months to provide some way to tap into corporate email accounts before it executes its own ban. Saudi Arabia let the deadline for its ban on the service slide without major incident. The ban on the BlackBerry service in the U.A.E. was set to begin on Monday.

The U.A.E. was a particularly notable holdout as Dubai is one of the largest business hubs in the world. The ban would have blocked out the service for business travelers heading to Dubai and other parts of the U.A.E.

Representatives from the U.A.E. said a deal had been reached between the government and Research in Motion to make its devices compliant with local government laws, according to a report by the Associated Press. It wasn’t clear what concessions the BlackBerry provider made to government officials, but the wording of the agreement suggested it was a permanent one, the report stated.

The ban emerged after a handful of countries demanded that Research in Motion provide a way for government officials to tap into the BlackBerry service to view corporate email and messages. Research in Motion has stated before that it has no way to decrypt the data that goes through its network via corporate email accounts and provide governments with the actual data, and that it is on individual governments to request the encryption keys for the data from companies.

Investors took the news as a positive, sending Research in Motion’s shares up 2.6 percent to $49.15 as of 10:30 PST.

I LVoe!

source: thenational