Egypt has three mobile phone operators a Mobinil, Vodaphone and Etisalat, and they all agreed simultanously to ban Skype usage from phones. Here is quote from Government.
"The ban is on Skype on mobile internet, not on fixed, and this is due to the fact it is against the law since it bypasses the legal gateway," said Amr Badawy, the executive president of the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA).
Under Egyptian law, international calls must pass through a network controlled by majority state-owned Telecom Egypt, which this week reported disappointing earnings.
Skype works fine on your PC so this was a joint decison by the mobile operators. This move should have been against the antitrust law but was done under asupices of government rule.
So one cannot access Skype through the mobile operators network, but if you have wifi access (home or some hotspot) you can still do the skype thing, or should be able to. Even my daughters Ipod now has skype on it, but needs the mic plugin to work.
We have Blackberry phones and skype is not available yet. Lot's of talk, but no action from RIM in Canada. But there is a way around (if your phone model is supported) go to Iskoot for Skype to download the application. Works a treat.
Note: If you try Iskoot through the mobile network and it connects you will be charged. But, Iskoot is not supported in Egypt so, like Skype, it should not work on mobile network
Happy talking on Wifi
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