Calling the United Arab Emirates

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Calls to the United Arab Emirates presenting a local number are not officially supported, and the quality shows it.

The rule

Calls to the United Arab Emirates that present a UAE number as caller ID are not officially supported. They are not blocked outright, which is what makes this one awkward.

What you will see

  • Dropped audio during the call.
  • A caller ID that arrives wrong or not at all.
  • Audio loops, where the call echoes back on itself.

Intermittently, which means a test call proves nothing and the problem surfaces with a customer on the line.

What to do

Present an international number for calls into the UAE. That avoids the whole category.

And if you keep going

Beyond the quality, the destination can be blocked or its rate can rise. That applies to traffic that ignores the restriction rather than to ordinary calling.

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