[governance] ISPs, PTA lock horns over illegal VoIP

[Carlton Samuels]

Several Caribbean countries do have bans on VOIP enshrined in their -still -
monopoly provider licenses and specifically interfere with and disrupt H.323
traffic.  Count Belize and Guyana among them. In fact, even the intervention
of the Government of Belize to secure a variation for a regional
education-related project did not succeed!

The most persuasive argument offered to the governments for the ban is loss
of revenue from the largely disreputable settlement regime of old.  Even the
large US carriers that were the biggest boosters have retired from that
particular field.  But our boys are still at it.  At least until the FCC cry
uncle!

Carlton Samuels

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Meryem Marzouki <marzouki at ras.eu.org>wrote:

>
> Le 21 juin 09 à 14:31, Milton L Mueller a écrit :
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>>> On the other
>>> hand, because they're proprietary, some fear that skype conversation
>>> might be listened to for (economic or other kind of) intelligence
>>> purpose.
>>>
>>
>> I don't get the connection. "Because the protocols are proprietary" they
>> might be wiretapped? Huh? Whether they are wiretapped or not would seem to
>> have nothing to do with the patent status of the codecs or protocols.
>>
>
> Wiretapped may not be the right word here. But the point is that since
> skype is proprietary, it is difficult to know how it operates, and in
> particular whether or not it allows interceptions of data. This fear is
> increased by the fact that skype uses the P2P technology, so one doesn't
> really know through which servers the data are transmitted.
> The French ban on skype in universities and research centers was issued in
> Sept. 2005. Right after it was bought by Ebay.
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