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If you use the Qatar sim in the U.S. Does that make FaceTime available?
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If you use the Qatar sim in the U.S. Does that make FaceTime available?
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It does work yes.
But it's going to cost a arm and a leg over cellular.
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So if I had a T- Mobile iPhone unlocked and went to Qatar and used a Qatar sim I could do FaceTime. Right?
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Makes sense to me. You just want Apple to have a default setting of FaceTime on but allow carriers to turn it off per their country's laws.
I think you didn't really get my point. I am not asking if Apple can unblock FaceTime in countries that have asked Apple specifically to block it.
I bought my device from a country where FaceTime is enabled, and I expect to have it enabled when I travel to any other country where FaceTime is enabled, but due to the way Apple implemented the ban check, my device is restricted to the Middle East only.
All I am asking for is that if the iPhone finds the "AllowVOIP" field missing in the carrier bundle it should allow FaceTime, but if the field is there and marked off then keep it blocked. This way the device will work were allowed, and stop the service in countries that specifically disabled it.
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Do not seek solutions on iMore. The forums are strictly dominated by the same 15 or so fanboys. They will not help you but will berate you for suggesting a problem exists.
Instead, you come to the thread, looking to pick a fight.
Is it just me or does anyone else also thinks the above statement is crystal clear?
I believe that if using a US sim disables FaceTime on a Middle Eastern iphone is to prevent someone using a U.S. Sim on that phone for FaceTime in a restricted country.
I don't know really.
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Would have made sense, only if the same happens to the U.S. IPhone devices when they are used in the UAE, but no.
U.S. IPhones have FaceTime enabled in the UAE as they don't check for the "AllowsVOIP" string in the carrier bundle. Those with a U.S. IPhone are able to use any VPN connection and use FaceTime on it as long as they want.
I don't think getting a U.S. SIM card Is any easier than getting a U.S. IPhone.
So to those saying Apple has to respect the laws in the UAE and KSA. They didn't, they are just fooling those governments, and fooling their Middle Eastern users.
Fooling their governments because devices bought from abroad do work with a free VPN. And we are talking about a country of oil where citizens could literally travel just to get an iPhone from any other European country, or the U.S., and just for that purpose. And they already do this, check ADSLGate.com which is an Arabic website with hundreds of people buying US and UK iPhones over there.
Fooling the Middle Eastern customers living outside the UAE and KSA because for some reason Apple is forcing us to follow their rules, even if we don't even live or visit these two countries, by restricting us access to FaceTime whenever we are in another country with FaceTime allowed.
Btw, those with a Middle Eastern iPhone using a Qatari SIM card in KSA and UAE do have full access to FaceTime as the data traffic is being fully routed though Qatar. Talk about Apple fooling their governments again, that's because roaming plans in Qatar for Middle Eastern countries is dirt cheap and sometimes even cheaper than local SIMs in KSA and UAE.
Apple is NOT respecting the two governments that want FaceTime blocked. Apple is fooling them and I am so emailing TRA in the UAE about it today.
BlackBerry is the one actually respecting their governments because when I was roaming in the UAE with my Qatar SIM card I was blocked from accessing BBM Voice and Video as I was just roaming in a restricted country. Now that's a logical restriction.
Would have made sense, only if the same happens to the U.S. IPhone devices when they are used in the UAE, but no.
U.S. IPhones have FaceTime enabled in the UAE as they don't check for the "AllowsVOIP" string in the carrier bundle. Those with a U.S. IPhone are able to use any VPN connection and use FaceTime on it as long as they want.
I don't think getting a U.S. SIM card Is any easier than getting a U.S. IPhone.
So to those saying Apple has to respect the laws in the UAE and KSA. They didn't, they are just fooling those governments, and fooling their Middle Eastern users.
Fooling their governments because devices bought from abroad do work with a free VPN. And we are talking about a country of oil where citizens could literally travel just to get an iPhone from any other European country, or the U.S., and just for that purpose. And they already do this, check ADSLGate.com which is an Arabic website with hundreds of people buying US and UK iPhones over there.
Fooling the Middle Eastern customers living outside the UAE and KSA because for some reason Apple is forcing us to follow their rules, even if we don't even live or visit these two countries, by restricting us access to FaceTime whenever we are in another country with FaceTime allowed.
Btw, those with a Middle Eastern iPhone using a Qatari SIM card in KSA and UAE do have full access to FaceTime as the data traffic is being fully routed though Qatar. Talk about Apple fooling their governments again, that's because roaming plans in Qatar for Middle Eastern countries is dirt cheap and sometimes even cheaper than local SIMs in KSA and UAE.
Apple is NOT respecting the two governments that want FaceTime blocked. Apple is fooling them and I am so emailing TRA in the UAE about it today.
BlackBerry is the one actually respecting their governments because when I was roaming in the UAE with my Qatar SIM card I was blocked from accessing BBM Voice and Video as I was just roaming in a restricted country. Now that's a logical restriction.
Well you said that if you use the Qatar sim in the U.S. you will have FaceTime but just not enough data. Use it sparingly in the U.S.
Use wifi in the U.S. for FaceTime as much as possible. Ultimately next time get a U.S. iPhone.
I don't think Apple is saying "Yo lets screw with people in the Middle East.
Your phone can use FaceTime in Qatar and in the U.S. with the Qatar sim is there any more that Apple should do? I respectfully say no.
If the data plan for roaming blows for the Qatar sim that's not Apple's fault.
5-6 years ago I was traveling a lot to Moscow and I had a Blackberry on Sprint with no wifi and a iPhone 3GS with no cell service. I used the iPhone on wifi with a Skype number to keep in touch with my family. My point is that you can make your situation work of you want to.
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LOL! Apple not respecting governments? Give me a break.
Just pretending to, except the U.S. one of course.