Twitter unblocked by UAE ‘s Telco Etisalat.
Today is the Twitter day, as this is the second Twitter related news post.
Baher Al Hakim aka DrBaher, is a twitter daily user who is located in UAE , has tweeted today that Etisalat has unblocked twitter for its subscribers in UAE. Etisalat provides Land line, Mobile and Internet access in UAE and other countries.
According to DrBaher Etisalat blocked twitter previously because its free SMS notifications was competing with their SMS service, “here’s some good side-effects for disabling SMS notifications afterall…”
Etisalat has a reputation of blocking many International well known websites, they blocked StumbleUpon last July but they unblock it later last month.
Stumble it!
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I was worried about how will I tweet from the UAE once I go there for vacation. Well, guess it Etisalat solved that for now.
But, I’m still worried that TweetSMS wont get such a beautiful reception from the Emarati telecom giant.
3a gbal Skype.
On second thoughts, that would never happen. :\
[...] Skype. Also some other Arab countries and ISPs block certain websites, like UAE’s Itisalat blocked few websites and then unblocked [...]
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