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India orders ISPs to block 39 VoIP sites
India's Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued orders to the nation's ISPs to block VoIP services being offered by 39 off-shore providers. ISPs have been asked to block such web sites due to the country's laws permitting only licensed operators to offer VoIP services.
The telecom enforcement and monitoring division of the DoT said that it found many corporate customers were using off-shore Internet telephony services. Unlicensed VoIP operators represent a "grave security threat to the nation and heavy loss to the Government." ISPs were requested to implement the order in the "interest of the security of the nation."
However, the DoT went on to say that blocking of overseas VoIP sites shouldn't be confused with the "routine content blocking" of websites as recommended by security agencies.
Foreign service providers that have been "blacklisted" include voiptalk.org, sipgate.co.uk, voiplus.net, and deltathree.com
For more:
- The Hindu Business Line. Post.
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Comments
Posted by Aswath | February 24, 2009 - 3:07pm
This is a bit confusing. The sourced article indeed says that PC to PC and PC to non-Indian PSTN are allowed. If they are blacklisting these four service providers, the question raises, why not others and why these four are not allowed to handle the two permitted scenarios. Indian news sources are notorious for alarmist reporting when it comes to VoIP. So I remain skeptical.
Posted by Joe | February 24, 2009 - 6:17pm
Where can I find a complete list of which 39 providers they want to block? (I checked the source article and they don't list it)
Posted by Aswath | February 24, 2009 - 11:35pm
dot.gov.in has no info on this order.No other Indian outlets carry this news item.Is this really true?
Posted by Anonymous | February 25, 2009 - 10:55pm
Please provide source...There is no reason to block welll known bunch of voip providers
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