Thursday, Aug 05, 2010
BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--Kuwait telecommunication companies haven't received any instructions so far from Kuwait's ministry of communications to stop providing BlackBerry services on the local market, Kuwait-based Al Rai daily reports Thursday, citing executives at the local telcos.
No instructions were issued to suspend any services, in particular messenger and email services, which the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia plan to suspend, the executives said.
The company officials ruled out that the ministry of communications would ban BlackBerry services in the same manner it was banned in the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia even though it would have the right to do so as the executive authority in charge of regulating the country's telecommunication sector, the paper reports.
Three telcos compete in Kuwait's mobile telecommunications market.
Newspaper website: www.alraimedia.com/Alrai/Article.aspx?id=219580&date=05082010
-By Beirut Bureau, Zawya Dow Jones; +961-1-985 757; BeirutZDJ@zawya.com
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