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India might ban VoIP calls
- boo 17y agoThe incompetence of India's Intelligence Bureau knows no bounds. Anyone remember last year's Blackberry ban fiasco ?
- plinkplonk 17y agoand before that, the blogger block (revoked after an uproar. there are some advantages to living in a democracy).
- lispm 17y agoI think the main reason is exactly this: the local telcos don't earn money on voip telephony. India is looking to increase income - being able to bill phone calls is definitely desirable for some people.
- acg 17y agoThis is a threat: authorities say this sort of thing to get the interested parties around that table to talk. This does not make the service out-of-touch, just it gets people to take notice. This strategy worked with the Blackberry, the company agreed to work with the security authorities. What this means for privacy though is a different matter.
- satyajit 17y agoJust about when Vonage announced that all calls to India is included free in the plans ... sucks!
- The_Sponge 17y agoThis is people who don't understand the internet trying to apply rules to the internet.
- viraptor 17y agoBad side of this: Call costs will go up. Good side of this: Costs of setting up a call center in India will go up!
- furyg3 17y agoI have a hard time believing India will randomly nuke all of their call centers and IT shops in one fell swoop.
- biohacker42 17y agoThat is exactly what bad governments do. And it is exactly why the developing world is poor, because of bad governance. Not because of some other inherent quality of the climate, geography or people, but simply because of crap like this. Stuff like this is sadly in no way unique to India.