The Saudi government told the country's three mobile phone operators to stop BlackBerry service for businesses and individuals this Friday.

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Telephone lines and the mobile network stop working.

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Mobile apps will stop being downloaded.

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The "serious crime prevention orders" will allow serious offenders to be banned from travelling abroad and could even stop them using mobile phones and associating with accomplices.

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