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]


22 Comments and Trackbacks (Add Your Own)

  1. Thanks Thilak to mention my name in your post.

  2. 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

  3. Anirudh: Yeah, but I wonder if we could talk over voice using proxies. Generally proxies are too slow for voice chats.

  4. Wait, If Voice Chat is banned in India, then entire Yahoo Messenger would be banned. **** !!

    That would suck a lot !!

  5. Yeah u r right Thilak!

  6. Bye bye skype, yahoo, google. Trust our Govt to make a stupid move like this.

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  8. I’ll go on a hungry strike, if this rules comes in place !

  9. Hahahha call me too !!! i ll be there with u. [:)]

  10. [...] 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) [...]

  11. Is it same in all countries ???? Do these Voip service providers has to pay service tax and all ?????

  12. Right now, this rule is planed for India only. I’m not sure about Pakistan.

  13. Thilak… What made u think about pakistan ???

  14. I though you lived in Pakistan

  15. Lolzzzzzz….Dude.. Im from Mumbai, India…….. Did u forgot me.. Im Dheeraj’s friend..

  16. Sometimes I get so stupid. I know another guy who goes by the name Mohsin who lives in Pakistan

    Sorry

  17. Never Mind.. it happens.. Cheers :)

  18. 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.

  19. well, only pc-phone banned, not pc-pc

  20. Timmy: PC-Phone is working here in Mangalore. Where are you from?

  21. 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.

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