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what about Ooredoo Are they prepared to provide FaceTime service to the iPhones Which are shipped to Qatar?
iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.3
Why don't you ask them?
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Official iPhone handset’s brought in the Middle East region are not enabled with the FaceTime feature, this is a restriction set by Apple. As an official iPhone supplier, Vodafone Qatar requested for the FaceTime feature to be enabled for all its iPhone buyers and by default is locked to a Vodafone SIM. For a list of supporting operators in the Middle East visit http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1937
Not true. iPhones sold in KSA and UAE have had facetime disabled. Qatar used to be on that list, but no longer is, so phones sold in Qatar should have Facetime on them. If phones from countries in the Middle East that do have facetime on them are used with a carrier from a different country, facetime could be disabled on them.
The restriction is NOT placed there by Apple It is a requiirement of the governments of those countries.
Ooreddo (qtel) is not an official carrier from apple, While it's most popular in qatar.
you can chek questions 11,12,13 on this page
http://www.vodafone.qa/en/support/faqs/phones-and-numbers/iphone/ipad
screen shot from my phone, model MD235AE/A Officialy unlock from apple. Facetime disappear when using qtel sim.
facetime is active now officially with ooredoo sim via carrier update
model MD235AE/A
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