DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has considered lifting the ban on voice calls services of the WhatsApp application.
Executive Director of the UAE’s National Electronic Security Authority, Mohammad Al Kuwaiti said, “The collaboration with WhatsApp has actually increased, and in many of those projects we saw a very good understanding from them of the concept we have.”
Al Kuwaiti further added, “There might be a lift of that ban for WhatsApp voice calls and this is going to happen soon, this is what we know and understand from the telecommunication authority here in the UAE.”
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The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) currently restricts the usage of many applications of VoIP in the UAE, such as Skype, Tango, Face time and Viber.
Last year, Microsoft confirmed that it was in talks with the TRA to lift the ban on Skype.
Skype is part of Microsoft Office 365. It was banned in the UAE in December 2017.
WhatsApp Messenger is a social messaging platform owned by Facebook.
It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, makes voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media.
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