FaceTime not working with prepaid sim

Hi everyone,
I own an officially unlocked (by Orange France) iPhone 4. Whenever I travel outside of France, I always use prepaid local sim cards (roaming fees are way too high + subscribing to data roaming with Orange is almost impossible as it is very complicated).
How come FaceTime does not work (the option to make FaceTime calls is not there anymore) when a prepaid sim card is inserted in my iPhone (and when I am obviously using a wifi network)?
Thank you!

While I can not say for certain but,
To use facetime one first calls another iPhone user via cell. This lets the two phones let each other know "hey, I am an iPhone 4". Once done, a Facetime option shows up for that contact (the phone won't know who in contact list is a iPhone 4 user until you call once). Once done, then you can use Facetime with that person right then, or phone will remember to give option to start directly anytime you are on WiFi.
Now, "how" do they tell each other I am uncertain, but could be that SIM plays a role in identifying iPhone 4 status. Since you are not using the SIM that came with the phone it could just be that.

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