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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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