Lets get things in perspective people. A blackberry is a mobile communications device that uses a standard SIM card and accesses data, not by some special blackberry exclusive method, but rather by EDGE over GPRS (exactly the same tech. as the iPhone).
With etisalat, what you are paying for is a data plan (though they don't want to sell it to you like that). As ridiculously priced as it is, I am seriously contemplating subscribing to it, as what point is having an iPhone if you are not gonna be connected, right?