Do you remember using microphones, speakers, voice cards and modems when you needed to communicate with someone online? This only worked when the other person had the same requirements that suit your connection. Aside from the poor quality of voice, your voice signal was simply changed to voice packets and transmitted through the internet to whoever you were speaking to wherever they are. This was the first Internet Phone known.
The evolution of VoIP services:
Voice over internet protocol technology was introduced to transmit voice over the Internet between your computer and the other connecting device using the numbers zeros and ones. They simply turn the sound to the numbers and then transported to anywhere you want in the world.
Years since this technique was introduced and developed until now, Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) has grown since 1995 passing through the dial-up difficulties to the easy use of broadband network and coming up now to the use of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) which elaborated the scope of VoIP from only voice to IM, Video and Wireless products.
How does SIP provide help?
The introduction of SIP for mobile, using special applications serves as a very promising phase of VoIP that allows a lot of people to make inexpensive and sometimes free mobile calls. It is easy to learn and most of the applications introduced are user-friendly interfaced. One of the most common and top application that come under the SIP category is “Viber”.
What is Viber?
This instant messaging and voice over internet protocol app for smart phones and PC as defined by Wikipedia, can exchange images, video and audio media messages which makes the communication easier between users. Although this program is just about 2-3 years old, several countries prevent the use of free communication applications, such as “Skype” and “Viber” and other states seeks to disable them.
Why do some countries block its usage?
Telecommunications Regulatory Authorities in some countries especially in the Middle East actually blocks the usage of application like Skype, Tango, Viber…….. Etc as a communication program and prevent its work after being very popular. According to some TGAs these are blocked for being suspicious and unsafe program that violates the regulatory framework of the telecommunications sector and also harms the investments of the state on the other hand people assume that it is because of the importance of this application in making calls and free unlimited messaging which consequently has its bad impact on telecom companies which started implying penalties on users of these applications as it is just as simple as picking up your phone and connecting to the other line with no extra fees or high phone bills all you need is a good internet connection.
Can VPN services help to unblock Viber?
The answer is YES!!
Virtual private network (VPN) can unblock Viber by bypassing your local Internet service provider (ISP) and providing you different foreign IP addresses allowing you to access Viber ( or any VoIP application which are banned) as a different user through any country even being in your country No matter your location or the one whom you call.
There are different VPN services that are provided and rated by users. Let’s take for example if you are in Syria, most of the users are facing the deactivation of applications such as Whatsapp, Viber and Tango, which works well most of the time after activated using the best VPN application.
There are many applications available that allows you to unblock these services on your pc or your android device. To demonstrate: Hide man VPN
For android Operated systems:
First: You need to download the application “Hide man VPN” and then set it up following the steps that show up during the installation.
Second: Click on the icon +1/5 that gives you an hour out of 5 hours a week, and then click on Connect.
All you have to do then is downloading and activating the applications which were blocked before and in our case you can sign up for a Viber account then activate your phone to make calls, send and share images, video and audio media messages to another person.
Hide man VPN can be also used for Windows and Mac OS systems the picture below states that a user from Egypt is trying to hide his IP address and accessing internet through another country i.e. the Netherlands just by changing his location and clicking connect.
Note: The VPN application listed above is not exclusive, i.e. you can replace it with any other VPN application.
Finally, we must admit that the virtual private network technique day by day is affecting positively the Internet users as it provides them with a variety of services such, as the availability of many of the banned programs or which provide only limited access
