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BlackBerry has problems in India and Bahrain too
The UAE move to ban BlackBerry services follows a warning from Bahrain in April against using BlackBerry Messenger software to distribute local news and security concerns raised by India last week.
The UAE objects to BlackBerry data being exported offshore and managed by a "foreign, commercial operation".
The regulator said only BlackBerry data services operate in that method. The decision will not affect users of rival Nokia and Apple's iPhone smartphones.
India's Internal Security Chief UK Bansal told reporters last week that maker RIM had pledged to soon resolve Indian concerns that militants may use BlackBerry data services.
A spokesman for Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said on Sunday there was no plan to suspend BlackBerry services in the Gulf island kingdom.