Etisalat, Skype, UAE telecom issues
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Skype Help
I too miss my Sk^pe.
I AM NOT A STOOL PIGEON - check my posts I have been around for quite a while
Please can someone PM me with the solooshun?
I AM NOT A STOOL PIGEON - check my posts I have been around for quite a while
Please can someone PM me with the solooshun?
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Somebody Help
Can somebody private message me with how to get skype to work with tor, or jap. I've got both but can't get them configured!!! If you need some sort of verification i'll do whatever i can..
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Trouble with Skype
Back two weeks now and haven't been able to get skype going. I've tried tor and freecap but it doesn't seem to work. It did for a day and then stopped. I'm a newbie but not a stool pigeon. If anyone would like to pm me with some advice on how to get back up and running, I'd be grateful. Just a little frustrated as other are I'm sure... Cheers JL
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Thanks Guys
Chinny
Thank you so much for your help !!!! I really appreciate it.
I can see the green light. Yayyyyy !!!!!
It feels so good to be able to get back in touch with family & friends.
Keep up the good work folks.
Cheers
Thank you so much for your help !!!! I really appreciate it.
I can see the green light. Yayyyyy !!!!!
It feels so good to be able to get back in touch with family & friends.
Keep up the good work folks.
Cheers
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Back?
My Skype was back again - sort of. Could only see one person on-line, no calls to landlines, but the little green tick was there.
Then it vansihed again - on this PC anyway.
A teaser for Ramadan maybe?
Then it vansihed again - on this PC anyway.
A teaser for Ramadan maybe?
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Received from a friend yesterday - a letter he submitted to one of the local papers. Perhaps not surprisingly, it hasn't been published.
Those misguided individuals complaining about Etisalat’s recent blocking of Skype and other VOIP phone service need to understand that there was a small number of people misusing Skype, and for that reason, (and certainly not to increase Etisalat’s income – perish the thought!), the services simply had to be denied to the rest of us for our own protection.
Similarly, a small number of people here misuse motor vehicles, driving them too fast and in a manner dangerous, so using the same unassailable logic as Etisalat has employed in blocking Skype, those who are protecting us from the depredations of the Skype misusers need immediately to deny everyone in Dubai the use of a motor vehicle.
There have been complaints – I’ve seen them right here in this newspaper – that a small number of people play music overly loudly, annoying their neighbours. This can be easily fixed – all people must be banned from playing music immediately.
I understand that some non Muslims here in Dubai overindulge in the consumption of alcohol. Clearly the answer to this problem is to ban all alcohol use for everyone in the Emirate without delay.
A number of smokers insist on lighting up in places where smoking is already banned. Let’s use the Etisalat fix – ban it completely.
Mobile phones – I received a smutty SMS once. Ban the lot of them.
I hear constant complaints about unattached males – ‘bachelors’, who are mostly labourers from the Subcontinent – causing unease and distress among many of the females who reside here, so it’s obvious that all these ‘bachelors’ should be sent home immediately. There’ll be an added benefit to this – with all the labourers gone, there’ll be no more complaints from people disturbed by all that noisy construction work at all hours of the day.
I’ve also read that quite a few people here are offended by Western women wearing inappropriate clothing in public in Dubai. Following Etisalat’s logic, the obvious answer is to introduce a strict dress code for women, particularly those dreadful tourists from Western Europe who think that just because they’ve spent multi thousand Euros coming here to stay in a five star hotel on a holiday package that promises limitless sun and pristine sandy beaches, they can wear the kind of clothing Westerners usually wear at beachside holiday resorts.
It may come as a shock to some that a small number of the single young women among the many who have come here to Dubai from overseas indulge in work in some of the nightclubs and bars of this city that can best be described as… (gasp!) immoral, so it’s obvious that the only way the rest of us can be protected from this small number of ladies of ill repute is immediately to deport every young woman from Dubai.
I’ve also heard that some of these women set up shop in private villas, so the obvious fix for that is to ban everyone from living in private villas – and apartments as well.
So, with all those fixes in place following the Etisalat model, we’ll have everything solved and Dubai can remain where it is at the very cutting edge as an international, cosmopolitan trading and commercial centre.
Right up there alongside Pyongyang, the only other city in the world where VOIP is banned.
Similarly, a small number of people here misuse motor vehicles, driving them too fast and in a manner dangerous, so using the same unassailable logic as Etisalat has employed in blocking Skype, those who are protecting us from the depredations of the Skype misusers need immediately to deny everyone in Dubai the use of a motor vehicle.
There have been complaints – I’ve seen them right here in this newspaper – that a small number of people play music overly loudly, annoying their neighbours. This can be easily fixed – all people must be banned from playing music immediately.
I understand that some non Muslims here in Dubai overindulge in the consumption of alcohol. Clearly the answer to this problem is to ban all alcohol use for everyone in the Emirate without delay.
A number of smokers insist on lighting up in places where smoking is already banned. Let’s use the Etisalat fix – ban it completely.
Mobile phones – I received a smutty SMS once. Ban the lot of them.
I hear constant complaints about unattached males – ‘bachelors’, who are mostly labourers from the Subcontinent – causing unease and distress among many of the females who reside here, so it’s obvious that all these ‘bachelors’ should be sent home immediately. There’ll be an added benefit to this – with all the labourers gone, there’ll be no more complaints from people disturbed by all that noisy construction work at all hours of the day.
I’ve also read that quite a few people here are offended by Western women wearing inappropriate clothing in public in Dubai. Following Etisalat’s logic, the obvious answer is to introduce a strict dress code for women, particularly those dreadful tourists from Western Europe who think that just because they’ve spent multi thousand Euros coming here to stay in a five star hotel on a holiday package that promises limitless sun and pristine sandy beaches, they can wear the kind of clothing Westerners usually wear at beachside holiday resorts.
It may come as a shock to some that a small number of the single young women among the many who have come here to Dubai from overseas indulge in work in some of the nightclubs and bars of this city that can best be described as… (gasp!) immoral, so it’s obvious that the only way the rest of us can be protected from this small number of ladies of ill repute is immediately to deport every young woman from Dubai.
I’ve also heard that some of these women set up shop in private villas, so the obvious fix for that is to ban everyone from living in private villas – and apartments as well.
So, with all those fixes in place following the Etisalat model, we’ll have everything solved and Dubai can remain where it is at the very cutting edge as an international, cosmopolitan trading and commercial centre.
Right up there alongside Pyongyang, the only other city in the world where VOIP is banned.
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Enjoyed reading it!! Only wish is for that to be published
...L1101..i had skype on about 10days ago(with UAE flag!) with normal connection..didn't log out the whole nite but it was log off automatically next morning.Maybe there is limited no of users allowed at anytime now!
just a theory!! i might be wrong.. i had connections 2x since they blocked it or it may be some system glitch.
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Change the settings on your PC to UK/US settings and time zone then change sykpe to UK also, should work, did for me!
If not, re install Skype using the UK/US as your base!
If not, re install Skype using the UK/US as your base!
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Not based in DXB, but frequent the area from SIN to various destinations. Could someone PM me with a fix to the SKYPE issue in DXB. Was there a few days ago and was SKYPEless....
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
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Workaround?
If anybody would care to PM me with the workaround I'd apprectate it. Just signed up for Skype ran into this myself. Anyone know about Yahoo voice> Is that effected by this problem as well? I can't get it to work either.
Thanks again.
Guemes
Thanks again.
Guemes
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Quite surprised to see that "7 Days" printed my friend's letter (see post above dated 24 Sep and http://www.7days.ae/2006/09/28/so-if...ts-misuse.html ) Note that you can make a comment online about the letter on the 7 days site.
All I think that can be guaranteed is that all too many readers of the paper will completely miss the irony
- and the deafening silence from Etisalat.
All I think that can be guaranteed is that all too many readers of the paper will completely miss the irony
- and the deafening silence from Etisalat.
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there is a absolute solution to skype
there is a secret no one knows and that is that it does work and theres is a group that charges a small one time fee for the entire year, also some extras come with it. i have been using it for 4 months now and never lose touch with anyone. its a miracle! just email xxxx use an outside email like yahoo or hotmail to when responding. its unbelievable.
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Another solution to those who are lucky...
Everytime you are on a LayOver, get your Laptop or conect to the internet using any computer, log on to Skype and update your account from there...
As Dubai is full of Expats, you may have someone outside you can trust... well call a friend at your home country and ask him/her to put some money into your Skype account...
If it is someone you really trust, call him/her and say: log onto skype, use my account and password, put some money there... you do not have credit card? use PayPal... send some flowers... chocolates for X-mas...
Capishe? do that and stop worrying about Etisalat...
Salutti a Tutti!!
As Dubai is full of Expats, you may have someone outside you can trust... well call a friend at your home country and ask him/her to put some money into your Skype account...
If it is someone you really trust, call him/her and say: log onto skype, use my account and password, put some money there... you do not have credit card? use PayPal... send some flowers... chocolates for X-mas...
Capishe? do that and stop worrying about Etisalat...
Salutti a Tutti!!
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Light at the end of the tunnel ????
Perhaps it isn't a train........
from "7 days"
At last! The news that 7DAYS readers have been waiting for: Etisalat have finally decided to unblock a number of hugely popular web sites that, over the last few months have not been accessible to the public. And you, our readers, fully played your part. The ongoing campaign, through our letters pages, and through complaints to etisalat themselves, to get these web sites back on our computer screens has paid off, common sense has prevailed and the public is once again free to enjoy sites such as Myspace.com, Youtube.com, Piczo.com, Metacafe.com and Hi5.com, among many others.
Despite taking a seemingly disinterested stance for a long time, etisalat is to be congratulated for finally acknowledging the wishes of their customers and the fact that these web sites offer harmless fun without threatening the security or culture of the UAE.
One 7DAYS reader summed up the mood of the relieved UAE web surfers with this message: “Finally! We are able to "Broadcast Ourselves". Well done Dubai, we have gotten Youtube unblocked! I think etisalat finally realised that Youtube actually was a lot of harmless fun, where people can be creative, and the government can now try to reach its viewers to combat all sorts of problems such as drug abuse. Thank you etisalat, finally, a satisfied customer.”
from "7 days"
At last! The news that 7DAYS readers have been waiting for: Etisalat have finally decided to unblock a number of hugely popular web sites that, over the last few months have not been accessible to the public. And you, our readers, fully played your part. The ongoing campaign, through our letters pages, and through complaints to etisalat themselves, to get these web sites back on our computer screens has paid off, common sense has prevailed and the public is once again free to enjoy sites such as Myspace.com, Youtube.com, Piczo.com, Metacafe.com and Hi5.com, among many others.
Despite taking a seemingly disinterested stance for a long time, etisalat is to be congratulated for finally acknowledging the wishes of their customers and the fact that these web sites offer harmless fun without threatening the security or culture of the UAE.
One 7DAYS reader summed up the mood of the relieved UAE web surfers with this message: “Finally! We are able to "Broadcast Ourselves". Well done Dubai, we have gotten Youtube unblocked! I think etisalat finally realised that Youtube actually was a lot of harmless fun, where people can be creative, and the government can now try to reach its viewers to combat all sorts of problems such as drug abuse. Thank you etisalat, finally, a satisfied customer.”