Even Blackberry services were hit (to gasps of horror from the business elite).
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India made similar threats to shut down BlackBerry services two years ago, demanding RIM give the government access to encrypted messages.
The United Arab Emirates threatened on Sunday to ban some Blackberry services.
"It will take more than just a couple of collapses to persuade loyal consumers of Blackberry services to look for alternatives, " he said.
Blackberry services have been restored in Saudi Arabia, reports say.
Meanwhile Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has responded to a report in India's Economic Times reported saying the firm will allow Indian security authorities to monitor Blackberry services.
They're working up contingency plans, but not really expecting to lose BlackBerry services, especially considering that RIM was able to make concessions and strike a deal with Saudi Arabia to avoid a ban.
Robin joined RIM in the beginning of 2007 with the mandate to take RIM's BlackBerry data services infrastructure from a single presence in Canada to a distributed model connecting to over 650 carrier partners worldwide.
Today, BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day.
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But Barclays' Kvaal contends that RIM's push technology will continue to be a "major differentiator" for BlackBerry devices and services, particularly since RIM allows outside developers to use the feature in their applications.
Our developer teams are continuing to generate momentum to bring a wealth of applications to BlackBerry 10, our enterprise teams have started to present BlackBerry 10 devices and services to our business customers, and our engineers are fully mobilized to ensure that BlackBerry 10 launches flawlessly in the first quarter of 2013.
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Blackberry had earlier declared services to be "operating normally", only to be contradicted by frustrated users.
Both Blackberry and iPhone have enjoyed benefits from early proliferation of certain services (push email for Blackberry, app store for iPhone).
Orange has installed systems to record BlackBerry, which is the most popular device in financial services because the communications go through a BlackBerry server which offers enterprise controls and security.
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So there we were, in 2007, launching a legal Web-services tool without a BlackBerry app.
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Also in the spirit of spring cleaning, Google is encouraging users to uninstall the Sync app and properly configure their BlackBerry handsets to take advantage of these services.
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Carrier text services are under attack by free texting services offered by Apple, Blackberry, and various Internet-based providers (free because the bandwidth needed to enable texting is minimal).
There is no way to use the tablet for VoIP connections like Skype or Fring, although they have just released their video chat and blackberry messenger updates to allow for these services.
In addition, over this past year, Robin has led RIM's Enterprise business unit focused on enabling services for Enterprise customers and preparing for the launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform.
Regardless, many people are so attached to these devices that people were completely outraged when BlackBerry experienced system outages in October 2011, despite the fact that their basic cell phone services were still operational.
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