Why my facetime is not working in Saudi Arabia ?

Does the FaceTime application blocked in Saudi Arabia by Apple ?

Ghidian wrote:
I brought my iPhone from Saudi Arabia specifically from STC career and i tried to use my FaceTime in Jordan by inserting Jordanian SIM card ( Zain Career ) and my FaceTime worked very well, it means that Saudi governmental they banned the application !!
Apple must refuse this banned !!!!
This is very bad.
Apple doesn't have to do anything, other than comply with the laws & policies of that country.
Here's your choice; either Apple complies with the local laws & policies, and is able to sell iPhones in Suadi Arabia, or they refuse to comply, and then NO iPhones will be sold in Saudi Arabia (except grey market).
Don't like those choices? Here's a third one. Petition to your government to change their policies.

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we have stores sell apple products some of them sell with faetime at a high rate,
and some other sell apple products without facetime at a normal price.
finaly we need apple stores in Saudi Arabia to prevent this fraud.
thank you
what you're saying here is that some people parallel import apple products around the normal channels and they are from other countries so they havent got facetime blocked
and others normally import apple products and they are blocked
and then you go on believing that if apple had a store in saudi things would be better rest asured that if they did they would sell products with facetime blocked

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Hi,
I looked in System Preferences > Language and Text and under the Region Tab I found you could set "Show All Regions"
This then added some Language choices that then had Countries listed next to them
I could chose Saudi Arabia here but it made not difference to the choices shown in Messages.
In Messages I was highlighting the iMessages Login I already have and clicking the Detail Button and then Logging in
After that I could look at the Drop Down for Language and Countries.
As you say it is a somewhat limited list.
I am also sure I did not really have my computer set to type in Arabic (It also still listed British in Language and Text > Input methods and showed the British flag rather than the Saudi one.)
It might also need a restart to make some changes take effect.
I see on the right of your Post that it shows other similar questions
It might pay to read some of those threads.
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Hi,
I looked in System Preferences > Language and Text and under the Region Tab I found you could set "Show All Regions"
This then added some Language choices that then had Countries listed next to them
I could chose Saudi Arabia here but it made not difference to the choices shown in Messages.
In Messages I was highlighting the iMessages Login I already have and clicking the Detail Button and then Logging in
After that I could look at the Drop Down for Language and Countries.
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I am also sure I did not really have my computer set to type in Arabic (It also still listed British in Language and Text > Input methods and showed the British flag rather than the Saudi one.)
It might also need a restart to make some changes take effect.
I see on the right of your Post that it shows other similar questions
It might pay to read some of those threads.
10:00 PM      Saturday; September 1, 2012
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
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How long the service is not available are tired of prevention for this servicewhich is considered separately from Apple for customers.
Sorry Apple ..................!

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However my money got wasted cause I wanted the luxury of a big screen for FaceTime communication
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