Comments on: Internet VoIP comes under Govt. Scrutiny

By: Kevin Miller, Jr.'s, SaigonNezumi.com » Blog Archive » Vietnamese Government Responsible for Cable Theft?

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:17:21 +0000

[...] Internet VoIP comes under Government Scrutiny [...]

By: Tracy Reed

Tracy Reed — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:22:10 +0000

This sort of thing is why the economy and the government of Vietnam are so fscked up.

In the future everything will be VOIP to VOIP. Especially as more of the mobile phones begin to do IP and send the voice data over the IP. I don’t see how they can tell whether a call is VOIP to VOIP anyway. They have no idea how I am terminating the call on my end. If you dial my phone number from a VOIP phone connected to my server in the US from VN it looks like you are dialing a standard PSTN number (and you are) but I terminate it to my VOIP phone and it never goes over the PSTN. So I don’t see how this is in any way technically enforceable. Of course, that has never stopped the government there from enforcing whatever they want in the past.

By: Kevin Miller, Jr.'s, SaigonNezumi.com » Blog Archive » More Fiber-optic Cable Looted

Thu, 24 May 2007 07:22:44 +0000

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By: kevmille

kevmille — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:37:03 +0000

I forgot how many telecom licenses were given out, not many. New start ups decided to ‘borrow’ another company’s telecom license until they can get their own. Normally takes 5 years I think. My friend wanted to set a telecom up, found a partner in Vietnam but then lost his partner in the US.

By: Christian Cadeo

Christian Cadeo — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:07:45 +0000

Makes sense… so would the opportunity to be for a company to give a rev share to the goverment for a exclusive VOIP license? From what I last heard, Skype was huge in VT so if you are a small player, this could be away to compete against the large players.

By: kevmille

kevmille — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:22:45 +0000

Money, that’s why A friend with another VOIP company told me that the government wants to strictly regulate this market b/c of the profit potential.

VOIP to VOIP are normally free services. VOIP to POTS involves money/fees. Money, money, money

By: Christian Cadeo

Christian Cadeo — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:21:02 +0000

Kevin,

Thanks for the head’s up. It is kind of odd to see that there is a distinction between a VOIP to a POTS and a VOIP to VOIP call. Any thoughts on why? Is it due to the loss of tax revenue that is assesed when someone uses skype to call a landline?