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So I have been using Skype from Jebel Ali and DMC over the last couple of months to make calls..but it seems to of been blocked this week..anyone else found this ?

I can still use the chat facility.

Skype is now blocked by both Etisalat & Du

Sorry, always wanted to use that icon.

A "friend" tells me it still works in DIC...

What happened to the promise that they would be allowing VOIP services to operate from 2007??

Hi,
I have some great information regarding Skype....

You can email me on

jassy2k1 @ gmail . com

Jay

I suspect he wants paid for the information....which is freely available on the internet anyway.

Just use Yahoo messenger instead is one simple solution...

Hi Scott...
Im quite sure everything which uses voip is blocked in UAE unfortunately

Like i said, you may email me for more info

KeithL wrote:What happened to the promise that they would be allowing VOIP services to operate from 2007??

You didn't actually beleive that did you!?

KeithL wrote:What happened to the promise that they would be allowing VOIP services to operate from 2007??

They meant THEIR VoIP services... and NOT Skype.

Anyway... this and the other Skype thread need to be moved.

^ian^ wrote:

KeithL wrote:What happened to the promise that they would be allowing VOIP services to operate from 2007??

They meant THEIR VoIP services... and NOT Skype.

Anyway... this and the other Skype thread need to be moved.

What im confused about is the number of ads you see in B2B titles that advertise for VoIP in dubai



what gives ??

Yes, the head of Etisilat recently said they were fighting a "losing war" with VOIP as it was the medium of the future but as usual all he said to "fix" this was that they would launch VOIP at some point in the future. It will be legal within the UAE on their service, but of course utterly useless to people wishing to phone free to friends online internationally as they'll have different software, so all it qill equate to is "cheaper" international calls at a rate set by Etisilat. Something tells me we shouldn't hold out hope for a 90% price reduction.

Information for fixing Skype connection (and other connection issues) is freely available by Googling, as I say, friends all over the UAE also use Yahoo messenger and although they've had a couple of problems (sometimes user at other end can't hear) they work eventually.

This vpn service helped me get connected while I'm in Dubai

http://www.gtsvpn.co.uk

Tony

Lou wrote:So I have been using Skype from Jebel Ali and DMC over the last couple of months to make calls..but it seems to of been blocked this week..anyone else found this ?

I can still use the chat facility.

I was on skype back to UK last night and it seemed to be ok.

Me too, last night Skype was working again in the Emirates Hill area.

....But I have used Yahoo Messenger the last few days, and actually the sound quality calling with South Africa was very good and sometimes even better than Skype at the SA end. With this I mean PC to PC. I saw that you can also make PC to phone calls with Yahoo. Anyone tried this?

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www.witopia.net works for me and is very popular. least costly of the bunch too.