India to Ban Illegal VoIP Service Providers

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]

This post was published by on December 9, 2006

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.digitalbuzz.co.nr Phalgun Shenoy

    Thanks Thilak to mention my name in your post.

  • http://www.anirudhsanjeev.org Anirudh

    oh crap. 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

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    its shocking. :shock:

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

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

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

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

    That would suck a lot !!

  • http://tech-world.info Vikram

    Yeah u r right Thilak!

  • http://ajaydsouza.com Ajay

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

  • http://techtites.com/2006/12/09/india-to-ban-illegal-voip/ India to ban ‘illegal’ VOIP » Techtites

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  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

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

  • http://tech-world.info Vikram

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

  • http://r9studio.com/blog/india-to-ban-illegal-voip-service-providers/ India to Ban Illegal VoIP Service Providers at r9Studio LOG

    [...] 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) [...]

  • Mohsin Khan

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

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

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

  • Mohsin Khan

    Thilak… What made u think about pakistan ???

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    I though you lived in Pakistan

  • Mohsin Khan

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

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

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

    Sorry

  • Mohsin Khan

    Never Mind.. it happens.. Cheers :)

  • http://www.floppyhead.com kevin

    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.

  • timmy

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

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

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

  • http://no kamal

    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.

  • JonasKane

    It seems that India made a smart move that could provide them with a new market niche in the near future. I don't how people that use the the banned services will do until then, but from my point of view, it is a smart economical choice.