Government To Clamp Down On Use Of Unauthorised Internet Telephony By Corporates

After a proposed plan to install an advanced screening system to monitor websites, the government is planning a clampdown on illegal internet telephony. According to The Economic Times, this clampdown will affect services like Net2Phone, Vonage, Dialpad, Impetus, Novanet, Euros, Skype and Yahoo (since Yahoo has got approval to set up a VoIP company in India, I am not sure about it). The government is apparently giving “final touches” to a proposal under which the companies who use these services (mainly BPOs and corporates) in India should give an undertaking that they would not use the services of the unauthorised internet telephomny companies. They should furnish the names of authorised service providers from whom bandwidth and internet telephony minutes have been taken.
According to the government estimates, unauthorised providers account for about 30 million minutes of internet telephony per month, which are used by corporates, call centres and BPOs. This apparently disturbs the level-playing field for bonafide licensees, while they are also avoiding 12.24 per cent service tax and 6 per cent revenue share to the government.
I am not sure if they will ban the PC-to-PC internet telephony which is usually used by home internet users. I hope they do not.
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