Riyadh, Aug. 6: A Saudi threat to cut off BlackBerry Messenger services did not take immediate hold on Friday as users in Saudi Arabia were still able to access the service.
Talks between maker Research In Motion (RIM) and the Saudi telecom regulator have made progress, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations said on Thursday night. “RIM showed on Thursday a degree of flexibility that has not been there over the past three months. Progress is being made. We started debating the technicalities of new setups,” the source said. Still, the source expected the ban on BlackBerry Messenger to take hold on Friday as decreed earlier this week by the CITC.