Indian Government has decided to ban unlicensed VoIP telephony service providers such as Skype, Yahoo!, MSN, Vonage, Net2Phone, Dialpad , Impetus, Novanet and Euros. This move comes mainly because these VoIP providers don’t pay 12 percent service tax and six percent of their revenue share.
This has been a major concern for Department of Telecommunication (DoT) because BPOs in India consume nearly 30 million minutes of VoIP telephony through these illegal providers. They also plan to implement a law which would require IT and BPO companies to furnish the names of their VoIP service providers.
This simply insane, a country like India which is seeing itself of the road towards development shouldn’t bother much things like these. If this rule comes in place, BPO and IT companies might consider migrating elsewhere and that would bring greater revenue loss.
via Hindu [Thanks: Phalgun]
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wrote, on December 9th, 2006
Thanks Thilak to mention my name in your post.
wrote, on December 9th, 2006
oh ****. I hope it won’t block gtalk. But while I’m in india, my proxy’s ip is lisenced to singapore. Plus people can easily bypass this with proxy servers
wrote, on December 9th, 2006
its shocking.
wrote, on December 9th, 2006
Anirudh: Yeah, but I wonder if we could talk over voice using proxies. Generally proxies are too slow for voice chats.
wrote, on December 9th, 2006
Wait, If Voice Chat is banned in India, then entire Yahoo Messenger would be banned. **** !!
That would suck a lot !!
wrote, on December 9th, 2006
Yeah u r right Thilak!
wrote, on December 9th, 2006
Bye bye skype, yahoo, google. Trust our Govt to make a stupid move like this.
wrote, on December 9th, 2006
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wrote, on December 10th, 2006
I’ll go on a hungry strike, if this rules comes in place !
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
Hahahha call me too !!! i ll be there with u. [:)]
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
[...] and now Indian Government has decided to ban unlicensed VoIP telephony service providers such as Skype, Yahoo!, MSN, Vonage, Net2Phone, Dialpad , Impetus, Novanet and Euros. This move comes mainly because these VoIP providers don’t pay 12 percent service tax and six percent of their revenue share. Read the full article at hindu (found via Tech-buzz) [...]
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
Is it same in all countries ???? Do these Voip service providers has to pay service tax and all ?????
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
Right now, this rule is planed for India only. I’m not sure about Pakistan.
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
Thilak… What made u think about pakistan ???
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
I though you lived in Pakistan
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
Lolzzzzzz….Dude.. Im from Mumbai, India…….. Did u forgot me.. Im Dheeraj’s friend..
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
Sometimes I get so stupid. I know another guy who goes by the name Mohsin who lives in Pakistan
Sorry
wrote, on December 10th, 2006
Never Mind.. it happens.. Cheers
wrote, on December 11th, 2006
My in-laws are Punjabis and they use VOIP in the U.S. to call India fairly cheap. It would impact them as well too.
wrote, on March 7th, 2007
well, only pc-phone banned, not pc-pc
wrote, on March 7th, 2007
Timmy: PC-Phone is working here in Mangalore. Where are you from?
wrote, on October 11th, 2007
please any help me voip call termination setup with dynamic ip,is it possible?if u have any idea with quintum call termination using dynamic ip please explain me othewise send me mail.