[governance] ISPs, PTA lock horns over illegal VoIP

[McTim]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM, William Drake <
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:

> Milton L Mueller wrote:
>
>> Why does your government make VoIP illegal to begin with? VoIP has the
>> ability to save internet and telecom users hundreds of dollars a year. It is
>> nothing more than a software application. I suppose the politicians who
>> support these bans are the same ones asking for international development
>> funds to combat the digital divide...
>>
>>
> You know the reason. Many governments in the developing or transitional
> countries have at various points imposed restrictions on the grounds that it
> bleeds revenue from the dominant incumbent carriers' PSTNs




That's the old paradigm, still somewhat followed.  The new one seems to be
"protect the (mobile) telcos as they are the new cash cow in terms of tax
(and other, more dodgy) gov't revenues"


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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