The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that in light of the country's efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it has made available an additional set of applications on all of the UAE’s networks.

The move is part of the ongoing effort to support distance learning, in coordination with the telecom operators in the UAE (Etisalat and Du) on an exceptional basis and until further notice.

The applications are:

  1. Google Hangouts Meet
  2. Cisco Webex
  3. Avaya Spaces
  4. BlueJeans
  5. Slack

Applications that continue to remain available are:

  1. Microsoft Teams
  2. Skype for Business
  3. Zoom
  4. Blackboard

TRA has revealed that it will review and update the list of available applications from time to time.

(Writing by Mily Chakrabarty; editing by Anoop Menon)

mily.chakrabarty@refinitiv.com

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