Saudi Arabia to lift anathema on WhatsApp, Skype calling
Saudi group try amicable media on their mobile inclination as they lay during a cafeteria in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 24, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
Saudi Arabia announced, on Wednesday, that they are lifting a anathema Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) voice and video job services including Skype, WhatsApp and Viber effective from subsequent week.
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Abdullah Al Sawaha, Minister for communications and information record and a authority of a Kingdom’s telecom regulator, pronounced a preference is taken to capacitate customers, including adults and expatriates, to advantage from applications that yield voice and video call apps, according to a Saudi Press Agency.
VoIP apps such as Skype, Viber and WhatsApp are criminialized in a Kingdom.
بالتعاون مع شركائنا في قطاع الاتصالات لتفعيل قيمة #العميل_أولاً، وجّهنا برفع الحجب عن تطبيقات المكالمات خلال أسبوع.
ولازلنا نطمح للمزيد.— عبدالله عامر السواحه (@aalswaha) September 13, 2017
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— عبدالله عامر السواحه (@aalswaha) September 13, 2017
“This cultivatable team-work between a Kingdom’s telecom partners comes underneath a powerful of ‘Customer First’, a process in that everybody works in sequence to give all telecom subscribers in a Kingdom a best services that accommodate their expectations and prove their needs,” he said.
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The Kingdom, deliberate one of a world’s fastest flourishing countries in terms of expansion in a use of intelligent phones, has a top normal use of Internet by mobile networks globally.
With Saudi’s National Transformation Program of 2020 and a Kingdom’s Vision of 2030, this certainly seems a step to open adult their digital market.
This essay creatively seemed on Saudi Gazette.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1506189/saudi-arabia-lift-ban-whatsapp-skype-calling/