Oman also bans unlicensed VoIP services
Better late than never.The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has finally taken a very tough stand on the unlicensed VoIP service providers who offer their voice services through the cyber cafes in the country.
The TRI has banned the VoIP services offered by many cyber cafes and asserted that the incumbent Omantel has the legal right to provide IP telephony services in the country.
The violation of TRI
ruling may force the caf operators to pay a fine of upto $1, 30,000 or two years in prison.
The decision to ban unlicensed VoIP services has been enforced in the event of increasing number of foreign companies offering their free or low cost VoIP services through cyber cafes.
Earlier, the government of India has decided to ban unlicensed VoIP services of Skype, Vonage, Yahoo!, Net2Phone, Dialpad, Impetus, Novanet and Euros. It has also ruled that the BPOs and other call centers using VoIP services of unlicensed service providers will face clampdown.