It looks like the United Arab Emirates and RIM have come to agreement and a BlackBerry ban will no longer take place.  This was a huge issue that sizzled over the gulf throughout the summer where we saw more and more countries go for the ban.

There is no word as to what exactly was done here to make the two come to agreement and keep BlackBerry services, but a state news agency WAM said that “the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has confirmed that BlackBerry services are now compliant with the UAE’s telecommunications regulatory framework.”  So we can sort of assume that RIM has given the UAE some sort of access to what they want to see.

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-by Otoniel Bruno

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