The BlackBerry Service Blocked in Saudi Arabia

As planned earlier, the Government of Saudi Arabia finally started to stop the BlackBerry services starting Friday (06/08/2010) this. A number of users in the country reported that the BlackBerry service started not working since morning.

"It seems to have stopped," said one user in Jeddah, as reported by AFP. The average users began to realize that his BlackBerry device is no longer functioning as usual since 9:00 pm local time.

Earlier, on Tuesday, the Saudi Arabian telecommunications regulator has asked the three mobile operators that serve to halt BlackBerry service from this Friday. The reason, the BlackBerry service does not meet the regulatory requirements set by the government can not monitor the content of messages distributed among users.

All transmitted data is encrypted on the BlackBerry service with a highly secure and managed from a server in Canada. This causes difficulties Saudi Arabian authorities to monitor the possibility of abuse that could be considered threatening state security.

Step Saudi Arabia carried out only five days ago after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said the same reason. A new BlackBerry in the UAE will be banned starting next October 11, 2010 and still awaiting response providers BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM), Canada. The Government of India also threatens blackBerry Blocking.