In the interest of protecting the domestic phone services, China has pretty much banned Skype and any other Internet phone service that isn’t owned by the Chinese:
The ministry’s move, however, also has business in mind. China has said only state-owned telecoms China Telecom and China Unicom have the right to offer Internet phone services for calls that link telephones and computers.
But few do. The country’s major telecoms have been offering Internet phone services only on a trial basis in four cities, according to Kan Kaili, a director of China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc., a company that has offered Internet phone services. That leaves the market to the hundreds of small-scale companies have sprung up.
“This notice is actually protecting the telecoms’ traditional voice services,” said Mr. Kan, who is also a professor at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. It’s “obviously a wrong thing, absolutely wrong.”
Lovely. One thing that crossed my mind is that their might be another reason for this. The Chinese might be afraid of VoIP services like Skype because they likely would have difficulty snooping on users.
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China Bans Non-Chinese Internet Phone Services
In the interest of protecting the domestic phone services, China has pretty much banned Skype and any other Internet phone service that isn’t owned by the Chinese:
The ministry’s move, however, also has business in mind. China has said only state-owned telecoms China Telecom and China Unicom have the right to offer Internet phone services for calls that link telephones and computers.
But few do. The country’s major telecoms have been offering Internet phone services only on a trial basis in four cities, according to Kan Kaili, a director of China VoIP & Digital Telecom Inc., a company that has offered Internet phone services. That leaves the market to the hundreds of small-scale companies have sprung up.
“This notice is actually protecting the telecoms’ traditional voice services,” said Mr. Kan, who is also a professor at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. It’s “obviously a wrong thing, absolutely wrong.”
Lovely. One thing that crossed my mind is that their might be another reason for this. The Chinese might be afraid of VoIP services like Skype because they likely would have difficulty snooping on users.
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