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Title: China Telecom said to block Skype
Source: Reuters
URL Source: http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsA ... COMS-CHINA-CHINATELECOM-DC.XML
Published: Sep 9, 2005
Author: Doug Young
Post Date: 2005-09-10 13:13:08 by Alan Chapman
Keywords: Telecom, China, block
Views: 81
Comments: 3

China Telecom has started blocking access to a popular Internet telephone service that is threatening its long-distance revenue, according to local media reports and Internet postings.

China's largest fixed-line phone carrier recently began blocking access to service from Skype Technologies SA, a European-based Internet telecoms services provider, in the affluent southern city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong, according to the reports, including one in the Shanghai Daily.

They said China Telecom, whose broadband Internet service allows access to Skype, has plans to eventually block the service throughout its coverage area nationwide.

They also said the carrier has created a "black list" of people who use the service in Shenzhen, and threatened to fine anyone who tries to get around the new obstacles.

A China Telecom spokesman had no comment on the reports about the Shenzhen blockage, but gave a broader view.

"Under the current relevant laws and regulations of China, PC-to-phone services are strictly regulated and only China Telecom and (the nation's other fixed-line carrier) China Netcom are permitted to carry out some trials on a very limited basis," he said.

Skype service, which allows people to make calls from their PCs to regular phones, enables subscribers in China to dial to major Western markets in the United States and Europe for as little as 2 eurocents per minute (2.5 U.S. cents), compared with rates closer to $1 per minute from China Telecom.

China routinely blocks access to Web sites on politically sensitive subjects such as the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement and the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square that left hundreds dead. But blockage of sites for purely economic reasons is much less common.

Tom Online, a Beijing-based provider of wireless value-added services that has a year-old relationship with Skype for Internet instant messaging services, said its product in China was still operational.

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#1. To: Neil McIver (#0)

isn't this the one you were telling me about?

"You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."~~New Orleaner

christine  posted on  2005-09-10   13:32:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: christine (#1)

Yes. I just signed up with them myself. They are a step up from the regular Voip since you don't need any special hardware to run it. It's all software driven from your PC. Use your PC mic and speakers to call people. Not sure of the service quality yet, but it's questionable. Still testing that. Skype will give phone numbers out for a fee, and charges the caller on a per minute basis for all calls to non skype users. Calls to US phones are 2c/minute. They also run on linux.

Pinguinite for Pinguins

Neil McIver  posted on  2005-09-10   13:42:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Neil McIver (#2)

Still testing that. Skype will give phone numbers out for a fee, and charges the caller on a per minute basis for all calls to non skype users. Calls to US phones are 2c/minute. They also run on linux.

This sounds good.

I'll have to set up an account too.


Hey, Meester,wanna meet my seester?

Flintlock  posted on  2005-09-10   13:56:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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