Facetime not working while in Korea.

So, I am currently deployed in Korea.  Facetime was working fine til 4.1 or something like that, I updated and no more Facetime.  I was able to talk to my wife in the states via Facetime over WIfi with no problems.  I have tried everything under the planet but it will not activate.  Its a US (AT&T) Phone and I had the service suspended until my return to the US in December 2011.  I am using Google Voice to call home and currently Skype to video chat with my Wife, 6 year old Girl and my now 1 year old babt Girl.  I enjoyed Facetime better as the quality of the video was soo much better than Skype. 
I find it frustrating that people who spend 250 bucks on a iPod Touch can use the Facetime App and activate it just fine over wifi but I can't activate it since the iPhone activates via SMS, or at least thats what I read onthe interwebs.  I would really like to use my iPhone to get some Facetime but apparently its not possible. 
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time.

Hi,
On the Windows Phone platform there is no such concept of "apps running in the background". This was a concious decision when designing the plattform architecture to achieve better results in regard to battery consumption. This is a limitation not only for the Skype, but all apps on Windows Phone (with a few exceptions of system apps).
So indeed when you return to the Skype app you see the "Resuming" animation because the app is started again. But that does not mean that you are not available to your contacts. We will continue to show you as online/available on Skype when you move away from the app. And even with the app not "running in the background" you still receive push notifications as soon as a chat message or call comes in on Skype.
If you don't get notifications about such Skype events when you don't have the app open then we indeed have a problem. Is that the case for you?
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