IP Convergence: Beyond VoIP, Beyond Cost Savings

Well i think that voip is a great service for now and for the future ..but i think that security for voip is almost impossible to achieve

I heard that VOIP is also illegal in China and some other countries. I wonder if it is true.

Worth noting is that the Indian government in its attempt to maintain some control, set in place legislation for the control of all networks within the confines of its borders, insisting that all must be contolled by a facillity located in India. It is apparent that they have now recinded on this, under pressure, whilst it must said that too tight controls are anti-competative, one of the stated reasons was in the interests of 'National Security', sadly this was used by another nations government in order to drag back NMCs to their 'homeland', a ruse that lead to closure of NMCs across Europe abd the nail in the coffin of follow the Sun Data operations Centers.

I digress, in effect this an attempt by India to discourage VOIP, but like Canute they cannot turn back the Tide, VOIP is a nightmare for both incumbent LEC and national security departments, the former for reasons of the decline in the revenue stream needed to move to NGN and for the latter the loss of the ability to hop and listen to whoevers calls they like. No doubt for the latter those in 'Eschelon' will have come up with someting.

Governments cannot halt the inevitable, hard as they try, the results for developing nationsis that they will never acheive NGN outside of the major cities and needs of the out lying communities in these countries will find more effective unregulated means.

keep on rocking in the free world

As of now, its illegal to use VOIP in India. Thats bcoz govt subsidises the largest TDM player (BSNL) to provide services to india's rural population.

This illegal thing is just on papers, so practically everyone with a laptop has goto skype installed :))
But you will have to wait a few years (say 10 years) for VOIP calls to land on TDM phones/mobiles. Thats when lots of wealth of indian telecom companies will be destroyed.

bye.

Speaking about “Shooting oneself in the foot” - I find this quite interesting since India’s economy is booming due to BPOs, outsourcing and entrepreneurs are opening Call Centers there and they are also using VoIP or IPT to communicate with their clients around the World.

I remember about 5 years ago when I worked at Net2Phone, we used to play with all sorts of devices that would allow us to terminate VoIP traffic to countries like Indian, Pakistan, Jamaica, Congo, etc.

Those days, it was the service providers blocking VoIP traffic. In Jamaica, for example, we terminated traffic via a satellite link and Cable & Wireless kept blocking us (Net2Phone), we had to shut down that POP.

Now, it’s the government! But India of all places??? Come on...!