Many countries have ties between their rulers and the telecom companies that operate in the country. Quite often telecom companies are looked upon as just another tax that the monarchy or ruling political party generates revenue from. It is not unlikely to have the ruler's brother or other family member in charge of the nation's phone company. That is why there is potential for VoIP blocking in many countries and in many cases that potential turns into reality. Russell has more on this story.
VoIP Blocking 3rd World Style
The opinions and views expressed in comments, blogs, etc. are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of TMC, TMCnet, or its editors. TMCnet reserves the right to edit, delete, or otherwise make changes to the content that appears on these pages at its own discretion and as it deems necessary.
| 
0 Comments
| 1 TrackBack
Categories:
Technorati
Del.icio.us
Slashdot
Digg
twitter- Related Entries to VoIP Blocking 3rd World Style
- TMCnet Adds 40th Blogger, Keeps Growing - Feb 24, 2009
- More on Airplane Broadband and VoIP - Aug 31, 2008
- AT&T Webinar Focuses on Hosted Market - May 20, 2008
- Telrex Unified Communications Call Recording - Oct 16, 2007
- T-Mobile Fights VoIP - Jun 16, 2007
- Adtran Acquires Objectworld - Nov 02, 2009
- In Chicago for VoIP Conference - Oct 29, 2009
- ZyXEL Helps Carriers go Upmarket - Oct 28, 2009
- Speaking at VoIP Conference and Expo 2009 - Oct 27, 2009
- Supercomm 2009 Video Interviews - Oct 23, 2009
Listed below are links to sites that reference VoIP Blocking 3rd World Style:
VoIP Blocking 3rd World Style TrackBack URL : http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/27725
Marcelo Rodriguez has some very interesting commentary over at Voxilla. He observes a great deal of behavior in the US that smells of corruption. This is in response to a blog post that Russell Shaw posted and I picked up... Read More
Related Entries
- TMCnet Adds 40th Blogger, Keeps Growing
- More on Airplane Broadband and VoIP
- AT&T Webinar Focuses on Hosted Market
- Telrex Unified Communications Call Recording
- T-Mobile Fights VoIP
- Adtran Acquires Objectworld
- In Chicago for VoIP Conference
- ZyXEL Helps Carriers go Upmarket
- Speaking at VoIP Conference and Expo 2009
- Supercomm 2009 Video Interviews
Leave a comment