![]() ![]() ![]() Mobile penetration in Egypt is 116 percent, with around 94 million subscriptions. and the (regulator) affirms it will take appropriate action against any other applications or services if they fail to comply with regulatory requirements and rules in force in the kingdom," said the Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) at the time. "The Viber application has been suspended. Saudi Arabia banned the use of Viber earlier this year, a web-based communication application, for being difficult to monitor by the state and for harming the revenues of telecom companies. “There are several dimensions to the matter, social as well as economic, but regarding national security … I am sure no citizen would accept that we do not take the appropriate decision,” said Helmy on Tuesday. ![]() ![]() Pre-paid applications will face losses," he explained. "These applications allow subscribers to make free calls, messages and share files while their sources remain unknown. In June, Head of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) Amr Badawy told Ahram Online that a committee had been formed to monitor the mobile applications to decide whether to ban them, allow their users free usage or restrict them somehow.īadawy cited both security and financial concerns as being behind the initiative. “I have to be clear: I said no decision has been made at all with regards to banning Viber and Whatsapp," said Helmy, “because some people said we'd already made a decision, which caused some disturbances.” Speaking by telephone to host Gaber El-Armooty, on ONTV’s 'Manchettes' programme on Tuesday, Helmy denied reports that authorities had already decided to ban the popular free messaging and international calling tools. Egypt has not made a decision on whether to ban smartphone applications Whatsapp and Viber, Communications Minister Atef Helmy said on Tuesday. ![]()
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