Saudi Arabia ordered mobile operators across the kingdom to halt BlackBerry services as of Friday while the UAE plans to shut down email, messaging and Web browsing on them starting in October.

沙特命令该国的移动电讯商自本周五开始停止黑莓业务，阿联酋也准备从今年10月开始关闭黑莓的邮件、短信和网络浏览服务。

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Although this year's winner in fact came from Saudi Arabia, the mobile carriers cite a religious fatwa that condemned the show as immoral as their rationale here, and Reuters is reporting that Saudi chatroom users have actually been praising the bans.

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In ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, most of the material passed between teenagers' mobile phones is pornographic.

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The two leading mobile internet markets in terms of time spent per day are Saudi Arabia and UAE, an average of 2.2 hours and 2 respectfully.

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