Saudi analysis fix to avoid BlackBerry

The government had threatened to cut off BlackBerry's Messenger action to Saudi users on Friday, but so far has accustomed the account to continue.


Using bounded servers would accord the Saudi authorities bigger admission to letters that accept been handled alone through servers in Canada and the United Kingdom.

With about 700,000 BlackBerry users, Saudi Arabia is RIM's better Middle East market.

Neighboring UAE, with 500,000 users, has proposed a ban starting October 11 targeting email and Web browsing, as able-bodied as the Messenger service, on the device.

The U.S. and Canadian governments accept bidding affair about the implications of banning such services.