Yet, the TRA said it has not taken any decision to stop any of the Blackberry services to date, pointing that such a decision would only be applied after the comprehensive legal study would be carried out.

“The Authority aims from the study to find a balance between the right of consumers to use state of arts services on one hand, and the need to ensure that laws are applied, and in particular those related to ensuring security of the information networks on the other,” a statement by the Authority said.

Lebanon has joined a long list of countries raising security concerns over the BlackBerry use in Asia and the Arab World, including India, Pakistan, Algeria, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.

A growing concern is rolling in Lebanon over the safety of the country’s Telecommunication networks, after three mobile and landline employees were arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.

Lebanon will discuss the matter with the BlackBerry manufacturing company, Research In Motion (RIM), said the Telecommunications Minister, Charbel Nahas, who expected the discussions to take two months to be finalized.

The Minister told Assafir newspaper on Friday that Lebanon would ask the company to provide the country with a software that would allow authorities to access encrypted information that is now impossible to be read because the data exchanged by BlackBerry users is managed by RIM.

Lebanon has 60,000 BlackBerry users.