Originally Posted by
Yorkshire_Pudding
More worryingly, it’s also blocked outside of the UAE with third party network providers in Europe when subscribed to and using a du roaming package.
Its been like that for some time - all Du mobiles, when roaming overseas, route all their traffic back through the great firewall of the UAE and you are subject to UAE firewall rules even when overseas. I found I was unable to use the Qatar Airways website in Qatar when on an UAE mobile and got the UAE firewall blockage message and this resulted in my employer raising the subject direct with Du.
The Du response was a kind of s shrug and a statement that they follow TRA guidance.
I never established whether the routing of all traffic back via the home operator is normal carrier behaviour though. They certainly need to route the data usage back to Du but I'd contend there is no reason to route the actual traffic - but they certainly do.