Why Facetime is not working in United Arab Emirates?

Why Facetime is not working in United Arab Emirates?? Even the icon for it and its setting in the phone’s setting list are not exist.. Could it be that this service is locked by our local mobile carrier or from Apple side?

The UAE IOS devices are identified by their Serial number which has the Suffix AE. the telecoms regulator in UAE has agreed with Apple not to put facetime on UAE devices so people dont cut out the UAE telcoms providers that have not recovered their infratructure invetsments on copper and fibreoptic cabling/exchanges etc.
You cannot change this as Apple always refrences your serial number of your device everytime it connects to itunes or the app store.  You will need a non UAE IOS device to have facetime.  how about getting Skype instaed its more widely used and in my opinion better

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