China Telecom Blocking Skype

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Okay, don't get too excited. I'm not trying to incite the
whole off-topic thread that was going here earlier regarding
ethical issues regarding China content, etc,

However, on the issue of services denial (thinking back to
the discussion of various ISP's around the world blocking
various service, e.g. Vonage, other VoIP traffic, etc.), I
have to say that I think I see a lot of hypocritical folks
out there that, well... you can see the issue.

Via Red Herring:

[snip]

China Telecom, China’s largest telecommunications carrier, has begun blocking VoIP calls in an effort to stanch the 
massive loss of revenue it could sustain if a substantial percentage of that country’s 100 million Internet users 
switch their long-distance calling to Skype.

Reuters cited media reports and Internet postings as the source of its information that the former monopoly carrier has 
begun blocking Internet users from accessing Skype’s voice services in the city of Shenzhen.

The news service also cites a report in the Shanghai Daily that China Telecom plans to block Skype’s service throughout 
the country, eventually.

News reports said the carrier, which owns a large broadband network and controls a large network of ISPs, has created a 
“blacklist” of Skype users in Shenzhen and threatened punitive action against those who try to circumvent the carrier’s 
Skype blocks.

[snip]

http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=13516

- ferg

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