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China blocks Skype, VoIP

VoIP is everywhere..Alot of my friends use it to talk to friends and family around the world. It looks like China will be a hard nut to crack. According to The Register, VoIP is blocked when crossing into the Chinese Telecoms network, or at least VoIP using PC to POTS (plain old telephone service).

China Telecom is the country's largest wireline phone company, with the bulk of the broadband customers; and those customers are now finding they can't use Skype to call ordinary phones, using SkypeOut. But it may go further, and VoIP may be blocked generally. Reports from the FT suggest that this "won't affect" PC to PC calls using Skype. According to Shanghai Daily, however, China Telecom is collecting the identities of those who attempt to use SkypeOut to call regular phone numbers from their PCs. "Under the current relevant laws and regulations of China, PC-to-phone services are strictly regulated and only China Telecom and (the nation's other fixed-line carrier) China Netcom are permitted to carry out some trials on a very limited basis," said a China Telecom official, quoted by Reuters

The Register

Posted by | Fri, Sep 30, 2005 - 09:04 AM