LINK Is this where the UAE is headed?

"The authorities say the ban was needed on national security grounds," the group reported, "and because VoIP posed a threat to the state's monopoly of telephone communications."
If that is not a good reason then I don't know what is....

Shades of the short-lived Blackberry ban here back in 2010...

I don't think the UAE's that bothered about cyber laws. I remember one telecommunications messenger blatantly telling me that if I upgraded my internet, I could download better movies. Let's just hope he meant "streaming Netflix movies" or something like that :P