Hi guys,

I think you've seen that recently and even in a couple of days will be flying Emirates to India. My parents also flew Emirates last month.

There is one question I had about Dubai that is not prevalent in other airports. See, you can connect to the Wifi and surf the web with no problems.

However, in terms of audio calls (FaceTime, Messenger, Whatsapp), that's where the challenge comes. We can make calls but despite the strong internet connection (Again not talking about cell phone carrier as a transit passenger), the audio is quite spotty or you hear absolutely nothing. This was evident when I was flying back to SFO (from Chennai) in November during my transit halt, my dad tried to call from Dubai but no luck.

Is there a reason why that is the case? I've never had this problem in Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul-Incheon or any European airports to my experience. Could it be UAE government related or some other reason? I don't believe the high volume of folks using the Wifi system has anything to do with it, though I could be wrong.

Anybody else experience this problem?