Etisalat UAE lifts ban on Skype

Etisalat UAE lifts ban on Skype

Company "Etisalat" UAE ban on Skype's website, which allows voice and video conversations via the Internet for free, after years of being banned in the State.

"Connections" to "Union": "at this stage the State communications clients can login to Skype Online site, said users that the site is outside the scope of the ban, effective last Friday.

Despite the ban, several users said they have been using Skype since its launch, using apps to help overcoming the ban, but the service is only available for voice conversations and video from one application to another, still banned in attempting to make a connection to a fixed phone or mobile, which is a paid service.

And increased demands for the lifting of the ban on Skype's website after the Microsoft global system of Exchange Instant Messaging MSN Messenger "on March 15, to replace e-telephony system Skype purchased by 2011.

With the expiration of the time limit given by the Microsoft Corporation for its customers to switch to Skype, which ends today, the telecom company on the lifting of the ban on the site, so that users faced "MSN Messenger" in the State any technical constraints when go to Skype, according to experts.

Featuring world-famous site now has more than 13 million subscribers, who use his services in audio and visual communications.

And Internet users on social networks Twitter and Facebook were delighted by the announcement of contacts through Twitter to allow users in the UAE have access to Skype, tweet site won the admiration of many, and enjoyed SIL welcoming comments.

He said Mohamed Al Ghanim, TRA Director General, that the Commission is willing to provide voice service VoIP in the UAE, under the license granted to the two companies, the players on the communications service including calls over the Internet.

He said Etisalat and du have the right to provide the service, but instead prevent any body corporate not authorized to work in the UAE, to provide telecommunications services.

Etisalat did not disclose its plans on telecommunication services available on the website of Skype after the lifting of the ban, but can Internet users and Smartphones to access the site, and configure an account, and download applications for free.

, Said Farid faraidooni, Chief Operating Officer at du, the company does not impose a ban on Skype's website, adding that the company had not yet made any formal requests for TRA so far to put the callback services «VOIP», where the software development before IPO, guaranteeing the quality of service.