Request to Lift Ban on WhatsApp Audio/Video calls in UAE
UAE Updates: A
prominent Emirati businessman, Mr. Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, founding chairman
of Al Habtoor Group has called on UAE authorities to lift the ban on voice and
video calls on WhatsApp.
He posted a video
on social media on Sunday, highlighting his plea to allow UAE residents to have
access to voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) functions through the messaging
app.
About AL HABTOOR:
Al Habtoor Group
is a major conglomerate in the UAE which first started out as a small
engineering company back in the 1970s. It now has interests in the hospitality,
automotive, real estate, education and publishing sectors.
Mr. Khalaf Ahmad
Message:
In a message
posted on Twitter, the entrepreneur said it’s about time the country’s telecom
carriers lift the “ban” imposed on VoIP functions of platforms such as
WhatsApp.
He pointed out
that while people around the world have free access to the app’s video and
voice calls, residents in the UAE aren’t allowed to do so.
“All the telecom
companies are locking it. They are blocking it and not allowing it,” the
businessman said in the video.
“We aim to be
number one in everything… Why are we [behind] as far as communications is
concerned,” he added.
“In a country
like UAE, where we aim to always be pioneers in all we do, WhatsApp call should
not be taken when it is accessible everywhere else in the world,” he also said
on Twitter.
“I urge mobile
carriers in the UAE to lift the ban, a service free to use in the top nations
of the world.”
He did it for us,
Share if for him Now:
Many of UAE
Expats are earning low salary due to which they cannot use extra paid apps (VoIP-based
apps Botim and C’Me offered by Etisalat and du)
Thank You Mr.
KHALAF
We are very
thankful to Mr. Khalaf as he raises his voice for UAE Expats, now it is our
duty to share his voice across UAE, maybe UAE Telecom authority lift ban on
whatsapp by sharing this message across all UAE Social Networks.
Don’t wait, share
it now.
How about Skype also? Greedy telephone companies!
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