Qatar has no plans to follow the UAE and Saudi Arabia and ban BlackBerry smartphone services, the country's regulator said on Monday.
"We have nothing in our law to substantiate why we would pursue action to ban anything," Meegan Webb, ictQatar acting assistant secretary general, was quoted as saying by Zawya Dow Jones, reported totaltele.com.
Qatar telecoms regulator ictQatar said if there was evidence that national security could be comprised then any ban on BlackBerry might be reviewed.
"If evidence was presented that this was a national security threat then I'd be happy to look at it but I haven't got that [evidence] in my hands today," added Webb.
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